Primary Recipient

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE

Amount

$869,165.00

Award Date

9/17/2009

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

Oral cancer survival has not improved for the past 20 yrs. Recently, cancer stem cell (CSC)- based therapies have shown their potential to control cancer recurrence. However, the lack of in vivo models has hindered attempts to identify markers of oral CSC