Primary Recipient

YALE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$824,822.00

Award Date

9/23/2009

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

Mice with a null mutation of the homeobox gene Hhex die mid-gestation with multiple developmental defects, including complete absence of the liver. Recently, we derived two strains of mice with a deletion of Hhex in the developing liver - at E9.0 in the l