Primary Recipient

TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY

Amount

$717,956.00

Award Date

6/01/2009

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 long-term goal of this research is to determine the physiological and pathological roles of the different MLCK isoforms, encoded by the mylk1 gene, in the vasculature. The mylk1 gene encodes a 220kDa myosin light chain kinase (MLCK), a 130kDa MLCK, as