Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

Amount

$273,614.00

Award Date

8/01/2009

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

Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is caused by orchestrated host-reactive donor T cell responses and remains a major complication of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) or hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Although GVHD can be attenuated by