Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES

Amount

$241,644.00

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

The long-term objectives of these proposals are to better understand the biochemical and biophysical changes that occur in the human lens with aging, and which ultimately lead to cataract. The proposed studies will focus on alpha-crystallin. In addition t