Grant: WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
Primary Recipient
WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
Amount
$197,601.00
Award Date
7/16/2009
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
Recent evidence suggests that the delivery of human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) to the infarcted heart improves mechanical function in both clinical and experimental animal studies, although the functional mechanism remains equivocal. A major limitati