Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM

Amount

$675,000.00

Award Date

9/17/2009

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

A specialized population of cells known as podocytes plays a crucial and dynamic role in establishing and maintaining the glomerular filtration barrier. Indeed, mutations in three podocyte proteins that will be studied in this research G?? TRPC6, nephrin