Primary Recipient

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE

Amount

$97,757.00

Award Date

9/15/2009

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

Despite an increase in the repertoire of cytotoxic and targeted therapies, the prognosis for patients with advanced malignancies remains poor. Recent work has supported a stem cell theory for cancer and suggests that an early tissue specific stem cell is