Primary Recipient

WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIO-MEDICAL RESEARCH

Amount

$979,405.00

Award Date

8/27/2010

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

To derive induced pluripotent stem cells from donated peripheral blood. We have made substantial progress with this project goal, We have been able to generate iPS cells from human fresh and frozen peripheral blood (Staerck et al 2010). Because blood i