Primary Recipient

DUKE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$429,000.00

Award Date

9/15/2009

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

Malignant glioma is characterized by early local invasion, microsatellite infiltration of healthy CNS tissue and dispersion of tumor cells in distant parenchyma. These characteristics significantly hamper the success of surgical or radiation treatment, si