Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO

Amount

$164,045.00

Award Date

9/15/2009

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 capability to regenerate lost or damaged organs is severely limited in humans and most vertebrate animals. Other animals, in contrast, have remarkable regenerating abilities. Among these are the echinoderms, a group of animals closely related to verte