Primary Recipient

ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE

Amount

$80,000.00

Award Date

1/26/2010

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

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A major regulator of body composition, energy balance and food intake is leptin, an adipocytokine. Leptin circulates and has direct actions in the brain and skeletal muscle by binding to the B isoform of leptin recepto