Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS

Amount

$97,877.00

Award Date

9/30/2009

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

Rapid cell movement is important for the normal functioning of the immune system and for the spread of metastatic tumor cells. Migrating cells extend surface protrusions at their front edges, bind to the external matrix at focal adhesions, and then disas