Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Amount

$810,815.00

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

This project addresses mechanisms that are responsible for formation of the ventricular chamber of the heart during mouse embryonic development. We have advanced a model in which signals secreted from the epicardium promote cell division and morphological