Primary Recipient

SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION

Amount

$59,785.00

Award Date

7/16/2009

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

Autophagy is a process that is involved in degradation of long-lived proteins and removal of damaged organelles. Autophagy is generally thought of as a survival process that is upregulated by the cells during periods of starvations, but recent studies ha