Primary Recipient

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Amount

$744,060.00

Award Date

9/03/2009

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

Hirschsprung disease, or aganglionic megacolon, is a congenital defect that affects 1 out of 5,000 live births and is characterized by a failure to form enteric nervous system (ENS) in a variable length of the hindgut. This potentially fatal condition res