Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM

Amount

$349,231.00

Award Date

7/26/2010

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

While Fc receptors (FcRs) for switched immunoglobulin isotypes have been extensively characterized, an FcR for IgM (Fc-?R) has defied genetic identification. By retroviral expression and functional cloning, we have recently identified a cDNA encoding a