Primary Recipient

VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY

Amount

$492,613.00

Award Date

7/17/2009

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 goal of this proposal is to establish pre-clinical evidence of synergism between glucocorticoids such as dexamethasone (Dex) and the MEK inhibitors such as PD184352 in the induction of apoptosis in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL