Primary Recipient

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Amount

$379,397.00

Award Date

9/22/2009

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

Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease is the main cause of the long observed early mortality in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. In this project, the possibility that the RA shared epitope (SE) is directly contributing to atherosclerosis development w