Primary Recipient

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Amount

$793,500.00

Award Date

8/10/2009

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

Our long term goal is to understand the role of the basonuclin gene in skin and hair follicle biology. Basonuclin (BNC1) is a zinc finger protein found in abundance in the keratinocytes of the epidermis and hair follicle. We believe that it coordinates ac