Primary Recipient

CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY

Amount

$583,167.00

Award Date

9/29/2009

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

Recently bone quality has been widely realized to be more predictive for risk of fragility fractures than bone mineral density (BMD). Our parent R01 human study (R01AR04054496) is to characterize defects in bone quality, independent of bone mass, that con