Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH AT GALVESTON

Amount

$598,443.00

Award Date

7/17/2009

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

In the past funding period we confirmed our major hypothesis that progastrin peptides (PG) exert proliferative/anti-apoptotic/co-carcinogenic effects on intestinal/colonic epithelial cell lines, in vitro and in vivo, and increase the risk of colon carcino