Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE

Amount

$234,160.00

Award Date

9/18/2009

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

It has been recently discovered that in addition to resident tenocytes, tendons host another population of cells, termed tendon stem cells (TSCs). TSCs are characterized by their multidifferentiation potential, including non-tenocyte lineages, such as ad