Primary Recipient

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$732,860.00

Award Date

6/03/2009

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

Abstract: DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Hypoxia is a natural state in the lens. In order to prevent hypoxia-driven apoptosis the lens has two stress switch protein kinase C (PKC) isoforms, PKC3 and PKC5. Both of these PKC isoforms have C1B activati