Primary Recipient

YALE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$1,000,000.00

Award Date

9/18/2009

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

Asthma is characterized by chronic airway inflammation. It is well established that Th2 inflammation and the downstream responses that occur provide much of the underlying basis of asthma pathogenesis. The biologic function of Th2 inflammation is believed