Primary Recipient

TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK

Amount

$150,000.00

Award Date

9/11/2009

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

Mild vitamin A deficiency is present in 5-7 million pregnant women worldwide, a condition that in animal models can result in sup-optimal organogenesis. Understanding the role of vitamin A during gestation is thus of great importance. Our studies of uroge