Primary Recipient

CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER

Amount

$131,716.00

Award Date

9/18/2009

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

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a multi-organ autoimmune disease with rising mortality that targets primarily young women and children of U.S. minorities. Although childhood-onset SLE (cSLE) has similar disease features as SLE in adults, children of