Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT

Amount

$500,000.00

Award Date

9/21/2009

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 project addresses the fundamental mechanism of Bernard-Soulier syndrome (BSS), a bleeding disorder due to problems in several molecules on platelets and their progenitors. Proteins must adopt a proper 3-dimensional shape in order to function. Such a