Primary Recipient

WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION

Amount

$136,515.00

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

Fas-induced apoptosis plays an important role in the pathogenesis of several human diseases such as pulmonary fibrosis. Pulmonary fibrosis is a chronic incurable lung disease that progresses relentlessly leading to death from respiratory failure. Averag