Primary Recipient

SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE

Amount

$51,710.00

Award Date

6/04/2009

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

Under normal conditions, most T lymphocytes are made in the thymus. However, the thymus degenerates with age, beginning around puberty. Because output of new Tcells from the thymus is proportional to its mass, age-related thymic atrophy results in a prog