Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO

Amount

$166,273.00

Award Date

7/15/2009

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

New treatments are needed to decrease the complications of atherosclerosis, which include death, disability, heart attack, and amputation. Notably, collateral artery formation that naturally bypasses arterial obstructions occurs in all patients, but to a