Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO

Amount

$490,000.00

Award Date

6/24/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

Present knowledge on what processes are necessary for organ regeneration is highly limited. This project uses an animal with striking regenerative capacities, the sea cucumber, to probe at the genes and signal pathways that are associated with regeneratio