Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

Amount

$99,960.00

Award Date

12/16/2009

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

The kidney collecting system arises through branching morphogenesis of the ureteric bud (UB), a process that we have been able to replicate in vitro by culturing the isolated UB in the presence of a metanephric mesenchyme cell conditioned medium. Our puri