Primary Recipient

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY

Amount

$447,911.00

Award Date

9/16/2009

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

The major focus of the project is to determine whether immune cell senescence (as assessed by telomere length) plays an important role in our ability to fight off infection. Because life stress has been found to be associated with greater senescence, we

Recipients Connected to Award

Recipient	Role	Amount
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE	Sub-recipient	$237,923.00
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY	Primary recipient	$209,988.00