Primary Recipient

MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Amount

$508,500.00

Award Date

6/11/2009

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 increasing prevalence of diabetes and obesity constitutes one of the greatest challenges to public health in the U.S. and in the world. We have shown that a single gene product, glucokinase, expressed in a relatively small number of cells in the brain