Primary Recipient

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION

Amount

$139,005.00

Award Date

8/13/2009

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

Drosophila is one of a handful of model organisms used extensively in biomedical research. Importantly 60% of human disease genes are conserved in the fly. Genetic analysis in Drosophila has focused primarily on a whole organism approach but cell lines ha