Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE

Amount

$909,000.00

Award Date

9/01/2009

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

Incomplete healing of bone defects in the craniofacial skeleton is common. Osteogenic proteins, including bone morphogenetic protein 2 and 4 (BMP2, BMP4), promote healing in bone defects, but the proteins' short half-lives and rapid clearance by the blood