Primary Recipient

BUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING

Amount

$795,400.00

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

Aging remains one of the most complex biological mysteries of modern bioscience. This proposal examines how modulation of protein translation plays a key role in determining lifespan. This hypothesis is based on findings from various groups including ours