Primary Recipient

THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Amount

$284,509.00

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

Acute myocardial infarction and chronic cardiomyopathies damage healthy heart tissue disrupting the normal electronmechanical continuum of ventricular muscle. Over the last years, a number of studies in animal models have suggested that transplantation o