Primary Recipient

ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE

Amount

$587,733.00

Award Date

9/25/2009

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

In normal wound repair connective tissue cells called 'fibroblasts' become activated for several days until the wound has healed and a small scar is deposited. The fibroblasts then go away. However, in diseases in which scarring is excessive, these acti