Primary Recipient

DUKE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$446,281.00

Award Date

12/09/2009

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

Caenorhabditis elegans, a multicellular roundworm of approximately 1000 differentiated cells in adult animals, offers numerous advantages, namely it has an extremely short generation time, and its genome can be readily mutagenized, so that together with r