Primary Recipient

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Amount

$437,063.00

Award Date

6/15/2009

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

An arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is a vascular malformation in the brain with direct connections between arteries and veins such that blood bypasses brain tissue. A patient with an AVM may not be aware of it until the AVM causes hemorrhage into the bra