Primary Recipient

CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY

Amount

$874,490.00

Award Date

7/16/2009

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

Shedding of the airway epithelium with selective loss of columnar epithelial cells from their attachment to basal cells is a hallmark of all types of asthma. Indeed, chronic asthma is associated with widespread damage to the bronchial epithelium and with