Primary Recipient

RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER

Amount

$214,502.00

Award Date

9/18/2009

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

Biological treatment strategies by growth factor and Cytokine inhibitors -Overall goals are to understand the biological mechanisms of Discogenic back pain in patients and test out biological therapeutics in our rabbit disc degeneration model.