Primary Recipient

VASSAR COLLEGE

Amount

$183,773.00

Award Date

5/15/2009

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 main objective of the proposed project is to determine the role of the energy balance hormone leptin on early developmental processes, including limb bud growth and differentiation, in the South African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis). Because leptin (p