Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

Amount

$611,100.00

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

Angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels, promotes tumor growth and metastasis. During the previous grant cycle, we found that the fibronectin receptor integrin a4_1 promotes tumor angiogenesis by distinct endothelial cell- and myeloid cell-mediated