Primary Recipient

THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Amount

$640,445.00

Award Date

9/22/2009

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

Salivary carcinoma is a devastating disease whose primary treatment often relies on surgery. Cure rates are unacceptable and for patients that cannot be treated surgically due to tumor spread or patient characteristics, the chance of cure is very low. Ver