Primary Recipient

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE

Amount

$586,872.00

Award Date

9/14/2009

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

Linear chromosomes terminate in specialized nucleoprotein structures called telomeres, which are required for genomic stability and cellular proliferation. Telomeres end in an unusual GT-rich 32 single-strand overhang that requires a special cap to preven