Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTHCARE AT TYLER

Amount

$188,823.00

Award Date

5/20/2009

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

Research on lymphostromal interactions during the thymic aging--Aging causes thymic involution, which decreases thymic lymphopoiesis and exhausts the na+?ve T-cell pool, constricting diversity of T-cell receptor repertoire and inducing immunosenescence. H