Primary Recipient

YALE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$618,142.00

Award Date

5/21/2009

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

Metastasis of tumor cells to other tissues and organs is the leading cause of mortality from breast cancer. Metastatic breast cancer cells escape the tumor and enter the bloodstream by forming filamentous-actin-rich protrusions called invadopodia that dig