Primary Recipient

LUMEN THERAPEUTICS, LLC

Amount

$195,859.00

Award Date

9/29/2010

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

Patients with kidney failure must undergo regular external blood filtering, known as hemodialysis, in order to remove metabolic byproducts from their blood. Hemodialysis requires creation of access sites in the body for connection to hemodialysis machine