Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS M D ANDERSON

Amount

$762,867.00

Award Date

7/13/2009

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

How animals regulate organ size is unknown. Recent studies in Drosophila point towards a novel signaling pathway called hippo as an important regulator of organ growth. Cells that are mutant for components of the hippo signaling pathway exhibit features o