Primary Recipient

CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CENTER AT OAKLAND

Amount

$140,910.00

Award Date

9/30/2009

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

Recently it has it become clear that human mitochondria contain their own unique pathway for synthesizing fatty acids. Initial studies have implicated the pathway in the supply of octanoyl precursors required in the lipoylation of essential mitochondrial