Primary Recipient

THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA

Amount

$20,661.00

Award Date

6/04/2009

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

DESCRIPTION This innovative proposal focuses on the fundamental question of T-cell receptor (TCR) signal initiation by peptide-MHC ligands (pMHCs). A unique feature of TCR triggering is that while soluble pMHC is incapable of triggering in solution even