Primary Recipient

NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE

Amount

$795,000.00

Award Date

6/01/2009

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

A major goal of cardiac research is to develop the means to repair diseased or damaged hearts with newly generated myocardial tissue. A longstanding paradigm of cardiovascular biology was that the myocardium of the adult mammalian heart is postmitotic.