Primary Recipient

TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY

Amount

$929,250.00

Award Date

6/01/2009

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

Cardiac valve thickening is a major cardiovascular manifestation of connective tissue disorders (e.g., Marfan syndrome (MFS) and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS)), and non-syndromic valvular diseases. In humans POSTN protein is reduced in pediatric patients w