Primary Recipient

MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Amount

$949,844.00

Award Date

7/23/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Highly specialized professional antigen presenting cells are distributed throughout the skin and include epidermal Langerhans cells (LCs) and dermal dendritic cells (DCs). Our laboratory established some unique properties of cutaneous DCs. We discovered