Primary Recipient

CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$59,540.00

Award Date

9/10/2009

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

There is increasing evidence that cytokines, in general, and tumor necrosis factor (TNF), in particular, may play a key role in the pathogenesis of Crohn's disease (CD), one of the known idiopathic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD)s. The most compelling e