Primary Recipient

VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY

Amount

$448,500.00

Award Date

8/31/2009

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

Tobacco smoking is addictive and data from epidemiological studies have suggested that genetic factors play an important role in smoking and nicotine addiction. Multiple recent studies indicate that variants in the CHRNA5/CHRNA3/ CHRNB4 locus on chromosom