Primary Recipient

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Amount

$1,281,866.00

Award Date

6/04/2009

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

Although the first successful human gene therapy was performed in XSCID patients, the occurrence of T cell leukemia in five of twenty successfully treated patients three to six years following treatment has shown that gene therapy is not without potential