Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES

Amount

$230,384.00

Award Date

9/18/2009

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

Title: 'Gender Bias in Lupus: Contribution of Sex Chromosomes' Autoimmune diseases that cause chronic damage to almost every organ in the body are more common in women than men. For example, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is 9-times more common in fem