Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

Amount

$205,450.00

Award Date

1/28/2010

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

Autophagy is a process that is involved in degradation of long-lived proteins and removal of damaged organelles. Autophagy is generally thought of as a survival process that is upregulated by the cells during periods of starvations, but recent studies ha