Primary Recipient

THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Amount

$628,478.00

Award Date

7/17/2009

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

This program describes a chemical synthesis route to biologically active natural products. Mitomycin C is a clinically-used small molecule for chemotherapy that functions as a DNA cross-linking agent. No other known chemotherapeutic duplicates this mechan