Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM

Amount

$42,413.00

Award Date

5/30/2009

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

This administrative supplement is concerned with the optimization and reduction to practice of an assay for a biomarker, PGP, that appears diagnostic and perhaps prognostic for COPD. Although it is currently possible to measure elevated PGP levels in COP