Primary Recipient

HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY M

Amount

$153,000.00

Award Date

7/27/2009

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

The award will focus on a common but poorly understood disease of the human female reproductive tract, uterine leiomyomas. Our preliminary findings deomonstrate that leiomyomas alter their molecular expression patterns to decrease retinoic acid concentra