Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE

Amount

$740,000.00

Award Date

8/13/2009

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

Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disease of diarthrodial joints. This systemic disease is characterized by chronic synovitis, sustained by an antigen-driven immune process against one or more proteins found in cartilage. Although several ant