Primary Recipient

WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY & BIOLOGY

Amount

$160,609.00

Award Date

5/25/2011

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

The PI's previous work unveiled a novel mechanism of vascularization in human and mouse ovarian carcinoma: beta-defensins were shown to massively recruit CD45+CD11c+CCR6+ myeloid cells to the tumor microenvironment, where they were transformed by VEGF in