Primary Recipient

WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY

Amount

$946,933.00

Award Date

9/22/2009

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

Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) will be crucial for the development of regenerative therapies, especially when autologous specialized cells cannot be obtained in sufficient quantity. Despite great promise, pluripotent embryonic stem (ES) cells have s