Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER AT DALLAS

Amount

$137,758.00

Award Date

9/01/2009

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 cell biology pathway of autophagy is emerging as both an important mechanism of tumor suppression and an important mechanism of tumor cell survival. An important controversy in the cancer field is whether autophagy should be turned on or turned off i