Primary Recipient

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

Amount

$762,500.00

Award Date

5/28/2009

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

Our overall objective is to understand why the immune system in SLE (lupus) responds abnormally to nuclear autoantigens from cells undergoing physiologically programmed apoptosis, and how this response could be specifically downregulated for effective the