Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

Amount

$997,130.00

Award Date

9/29/2009

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

An important challenge in developing treatments that induce weight loss and prevent weight regain is to identify regulatory mechanisms that can be targeted for drug therapy. Invertebrate models have commonly been used to discover new candidate genes for m