Primary Recipient

THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

Amount

$234,500.00

Award Date

5/14/2009

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

The long-term goal of our research is to understand how the RNAi mechanism affects HIV-1 viral replication. RNA interference (RNAi) is a regulatory mechanism conserved in higher eukaryotes. The RNAi pathway generates small interfering RNA (siRNA) or micr