Primary Recipient

THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Amount

$130,472.00

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

Studies of human and mouse prostate cancer indicate that the homeodomain-containing transcription factor Nkx3.1 is an important haplo-insufficient tumor suppressor gene involved in prostate tumor initiation. Nkx3.1 protein expression is lost in human and