Primary Recipient

LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY

Amount

$676,510.00

Award Date

8/30/2010

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 use of pigs as organ donors for human transplantation represents a solution to the escalating shortage of organs that are available for patients with endstage diseases. Wild type pig organs are hyperacutely rejected, however, by preexisting natural an