Primary Recipient

MAINE MEDICAL CENTER

Amount

$413,875.00

Award Date

9/04/2009

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

Human embryonic stem (ES) cells have great therapeutic potential for various diseases, and generation of these cells has raised many ethical concerns. Therefore, generation of patient-specific (or isogenic) pluripotent stem cells by somatic cells reprogra