Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Amount

$445,750.00

Award Date

9/25/2009

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 planning grant will serve to plan a randomized control trial among five research centers to test whether adolescent maxillary protraction can be a non-surgical alternative to orthognathic surgery as a treatment for a skeletal underbite in the cleft l