Primary Recipient

WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION

Amount

$100,000.00

Award Date

2/02/2010

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

The morbidity of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) stems from its effect on electrolytes, nutrients and fluid absorption; thus, patients with IBD sustain malabsorption and diarrhea with attendant malnutrition and weight loss. It has long beenheld that onc