Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Amount

$432,178.00

Award Date

5/28/2009

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

Atherosclerosis is a systemic disease; however, its manifestations tend to be focal and eccentric. Hemodynamics, specifically, fluid shear stress, is intimately involved in vascular oxidative stress. Oxidative stress induces molecular signaling regulates