Primary Recipient

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Amount

$385,878.00

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

Although urokinase (uPA) and its receptor strongly contribute to the dissemination of prostate cancer, the efficacy of existing approaches to disable this system is incomplete, possibly because uPA acts through additional uncharacterized pathways. We rece