Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.

Amount

$734,255.00

Award Date

7/23/2009

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

This grant provides RO1 level funding for studies on the mechanism and function of alternative mRNA editing in African trypanosomes. RNA editing in trypanosomes is a remarkable post-transcriptional process that results in the formation of mitochondrial m