Primary Recipient

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

Amount

$964,704.00

Award Date

8/31/2009

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 first specific aim is designed to investigate whether mina biogenesis is essential for liver regeneration. This will be done by specific knockdown of critical components of Dicer in mina processing and Ago2 in the RNA Induced Silencing Complex (RISC).