Primary Recipient

CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA

Amount

$8,111.00

Award Date

7/13/2009

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

Our studies address a critical problem in hemoglobin (Hb) biology: how inherently unstable globin protein subunits are folded and maintained during normal and pathological erythropoiesis. We discovered alpha hemoglobin stabilizing protein (AHSP), an eryth