Primary Recipient

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

Amount

$300,000.00

Award Date

8/25/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

The overall goal of the proposed research is to functionalize Si nanoparticles to target common cancers, enhance the NMR signal of these particles using dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP), and characterize the hyperpolarized particles in vitro. These are