Primary Recipient

SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC

Amount

$98,702.00

Award Date

9/22/2009

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 proposed work will evaluate the potential for pursuing inositol glycans or analogues as therapeutic agents for cancer. Preliminary work has demonstrated that a fatty-acylated inositol glycan (IG) selectively kills a variety of cancer cell types in cul