Primary Recipient

CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER

Amount

$418,750.00

Award Date

6/01/2009

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

An ideal therapy for genetic blood diseases would correct defective genes in the patient's own hematopoietic stem cells (HSC). Homologous recombination (HR) can, in principle, achieve this; however, its practicality is restricted by the scarcity of HSC an