Primary Recipient

THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Amount

$53,703.00

Award Date

7/20/2009

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

Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) is a poorly understood form of pancreatic autoimmunity. Understanding AIP had been hampered by the lack of a mouse model of disease. We identified the Tgfbr2^fspKO mouse that develops AIP. Since development of autoimmunity is