Primary Recipient

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Amount

$676,326.00

Award Date

9/28/2009

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 project seeks to understand the basis of keloid formation, a form of disordered wound healing. In keloids, low oxygen tension and collagen deposition are both present, and we will investigate how low oxygen tension directly influences the biosynthes