Primary Recipient

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Amount

$100,000.00

Award Date

9/04/2009

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 overall goal of our studies is to understand the regulation, function, and disease association of the keratin intermediate filament (IF) cytoskeletal proteins in digestive organs. Keratins 8 and 18 (K8/K18) are the IFs of hepatocytes and their major f