Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT

Amount

$97,092.00

Award Date

7/15/2009

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 induction of peripheral tolerance is critical for deterrence of autoimmunity. Most self-reactive T cells are deleted during development in the thymus. However, this additional process is not absolute and occasionally some self-reactive T cells can e