Primary Recipient

TRUSTEES OF THE COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES

Amount

$320,000.00

Award Date

7/06/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

The goal of this research is to study how lipophilic chemicals penetrate through the outermost layer of human skin, which is called the stratum corneum. The stratum corneum is a thin (20 to 40 um thick), composite membrane containing layers of flattened,