Primary Recipient

YALE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$935,049.00

Award Date

8/07/2009

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

Aberrant somitogenesis leads to birth defects in humans. Later in life abnormal Notch, Wnt or Fgf signaling causes malignancies such as colon cancer and leukemia. We use zebrafish as a tractable, relatively inexpensive vertebrate model system to study how