Primary Recipient

DUKE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$780,000.00

Award Date

6/03/2009

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

Development and function of the ocular lens depends on controlled proliferation of epithelial cells, and on migration, elongation, adhesion, and cytoarchitecture of the resulting fiber cells. Neither the identity of the molecular mechanisms that regulate