Grant: DUKE UNIVERSITY
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