Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

Amount

$171,000.00

Award Date

9/18/2009

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

The parent project aims at deciphering the molecular pathways supporting satellite cell function and at understanding how these are influenced during aging. Age-related skeletal muscle deterioration (sarcopenia) is characterized by a decline in mass, stre