Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

Amount

$647,400.00

Award Date

8/12/2009

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

Silencing RNA (siRNA) is of considerable current interest in biological research because it can elicit potent, target specific knockdown of any mRNA, creating a useful and proven genetic surrogate tool. However, a key problem for effective application of