Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

Amount

$592,410.00

Award Date

9/17/2009

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

Patients with Werner syndrome exhibit many of the features of premature aging including atherosclerosis and an increase in specific cancers. The gene mutated in Werner syndome, WRN, is a member of the RecQ family of DNA helicases and encodes both 3'?5' DN