Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE

Amount

$420,000.00

Award Date

7/31/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

The recently discovered gene silencing effects of small interference RNA (siRNA) presents tremendous potential as a new approach in gene therapy for various disease treatments. One major barrier for its clinical use is the lack of efficient delivery of si