Primary Recipient

MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN, INC., THE

Amount

$273,600.00

Award Date

7/16/2009

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 objective of the parent proposal is to elucidate the mechanisms whereby scleroderma increases myocardial inflammation and fibrosis, which then results in myocardial dysfunction. Matrix instability in scleroderma increases oxidative stress in the hear