Primary Recipient

VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY

Amount

$544,131.00

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

Targeting tumor vessels has become a mainstream mode of treatment for a variety of malignancies. In addition to anti-angiogenic therapy, vascular disrupting agents (VDAs) are a new group of compounds that selectively kill tumor endothelial cells and suppr