Primary Recipient

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

Amount

$92,114.00

Award Date

9/22/2009

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

Telomeres are nucleoprotein structures that cap the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes and play crucial roles in preventing natural chromosome ends from being recognized as damaged DNA, thus ensuring genomic stability. Dysfunction of telomeres would lead to D