Primary Recipient

WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

Amount

$159,833.00

Award Date

8/18/2009

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

The experiments described in the proposal will establish the fruit fly Drosophila as a model to study human Lamin A processing. It is possible to incorporate human genes into the fly genome (so-called transgenic flies). When transgenically expressed in