Primary Recipient

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE

Amount

$510,450.00

Award Date

5/13/2009

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

A mechanistic understanding of cancer rests heavily upon the mutated genes. Mutated genes include the dominant oncogenes and recessive suppressor genes that are mutated somatically to drive tumorigenesis. Pancreatic cancer has historically been an unusual