Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM

Amount

$224,936.00

Award Date

7/16/2009

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

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is characterized by fibroblast and myofibroblastic foci, and has excessive extracellular matrix protein accumulation. Focal-adhesion-kinase-related-non-kinase (FRNK) mediates integrin-mediated cell migration. This propo