Primary Recipient

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE

Amount

$1,549,856.00

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

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is one of the most common inherited diseases in the United States. Vasocclusion, resulting in acute, debilitating pain, is the hallmark of SCD often necessitating hospitalization. In part due to SCD patients? need for narcotic me