Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL

Amount

$280,050.00

Award Date

9/29/2009

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

Inflammation, Obesity and Risk of Colorectal Adenomas This project will test the central hypothesis that systemic cytokines and adipokines or local biomarkers of inflammation predict risk for colorectal adenomas and low apoptosis within the normal colonic