Primary Recipient

EMORY UNIVERSITY

Amount

$967,294.00

Award Date

9/11/2009

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

Inhibitory antibodies to factor VIII develop in approximately 30% of patients with severe and moderately severe hemophilia A in response to infusions of factor VIII. Inhibitor development is associated with a lower quality of life and an increased economi