Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE

Amount

$55,385.00

Award Date

9/23/2009

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

This award is supplemental funding to enable the maintenance of a colony of musk shrews that are used in nausea/emesis research. Musk shrews (mouse-sized animals) are used for this line of work because common laboratory animals, including mice and rats,