Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS M D ANDERSON

Amount

$639,100.00

Award Date

7/17/2009

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

Persistence of dormant cancer cells that have resisted chemotherapy is a major barrier to curing ovarian cancer. Our group has developed the first inducible model for tumor dormancy in ovarian cancer using human ovarian cancer xenografts and has discovere