Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM

Amount

$100,000.00

Award Date

1/18/2010

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 overall goal of the parent grant is to define the role of Erythroid Krupple-Like Factor (EKLF) in globin gene switching during development. We have deleted the 50 bp upstream enhancer of the EKLF gene in ES cells and demonstrated that fetal globin ge