Primary Recipient

CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC

Amount

$937,104.00

Award Date

6/09/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

Cholesterol is the single most abundant lipid species in mammalian plasma membranes. Nonetheless, the underlying nature of its interactions with neighboring membrane molecules has remained obscure, as have its effects on membrane biochemistry. Cholesterol