Primary Recipient

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Amount

$101,270.00

Award Date

2/16/2010

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

In this award application we outline a strategy to identify genes that regulate cancer cell invasion, an early step in cancer metastasis, using the zebrafish. We have shown that zebrafish meltdown (mlt) mutants develop a cancer-like phenotype as a result