Primary Recipient

VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY

Amount

$620,339.00

Award Date

6/25/2009

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

Melanoma differentiation associated gene-7/interleukin-24 (mda-7/IL-24) is a pleotrophic tumor suppressor molecule that exhibits the unique property of inducing apoptosis only in cancer cells. Dietary monoterpenes, such as perillyl alcohol (POH) also exhi