Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO-MEDICAL SCIENCES CAMPUS

Amount

$145,650.00

Award Date

9/25/2009

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

During the next two years this project will test the hypothesis that abnormal imprinting of the IGF2 gene is a biomarker for colorectal cancer (CRC) predisposition, which exerts its increase risk via the IGF axis, resulting in specific pathological and mo