Primary Recipient

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Amount

$1,002,381.00

Award Date

9/29/2009

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

T cells develop in the thymus from blood cell progenitors. The identity of molecules that allow some blood cell progenitors to migrate to the thymus is unknown. We propose to identify molecules that support trafficking of progenitors to the thymus, to ide