Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS M D ANDERSON

Amount

$371,635.00

Award Date

5/15/2009

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

Pancreatic cancer is a serious health problem. In the United States alone, nearly 35,000 new cases are diagnosed annually and about same number of patients die of the disease. Difficulty in early diagnosis, rapid metastasis and intrinsic resistance to kno