Primary Recipient

OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$372,680.00

Award Date

8/14/2009

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

Epigenetic silencing plays a major role in cancer formation because it leads to aberrant inactivation of tumor suppressor genes. Therefore, a fundamental goal for cancer prevention is to inhibit aberrant silencing in somatic cells. Diet provides a potenti