Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

Amount

$156,000.00

Award Date

7/17/2009

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

Head and neck cancers (HNSCC) are the fifth most common malignancy worldwide. Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection has recently been identified as an etiologic agent for development of a subgroup of HNSCC (i.e., oral-pharyngeal cancers) with up to a third