Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, THE

Amount

$548,213.00

Award Date

7/16/2009

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

Tumor suppressor genes (TSGs) elicit carcinogenic phenotypes by gene loss. In thousands of publications, however, TSGs have been assayed for activities by reintroduction into tumor cells with TSG deletions. Whereas the FHIT gene has been defined as a gene