Primary Recipient

DUKE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$767,680.00

Award Date

9/10/2009

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

The actions of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) to control blood pressure are primarily mediated by type I (AT1) angiotensin receptors. In work done during the previous funding period using a kidney cross- transplantation model, we demonstrated distinct