Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER AT DALLAS

Amount

$200,415.00

Award Date

7/15/2009

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

Mutation in the gene for the ABCA3 transporter cause a variety of lung diseases that result in either death in the immediate newborn period or chronic lung disease in children and into adulthood. We have created mouse models of the human ABCA3 mutations