Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE

Amount

$148,000.00

Award Date

9/04/2009

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

MicroRNAs are a new class of non-coding small RNAs that negatively regulate gene expression by either degrading mRNA or suppressing protein translation. A miRNA cluster, miR-15/16, has been implicated in a variety of human diseases, such as cancer, and em