Primary Recipient

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Amount

$901,214.00

Award Date

6/01/2009

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

This application will investigate how the transcriptional coactivator, Myocardin, regulates the differentiated state of the heart and the capacity of the heart to respond to hemodynamic stress. We have generated genetically altered mice with cardiac restr