Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE

Amount

$156,420.00

Award Date

9/24/2009

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 project involves the assessment of motor and executive dysfunction in three mouse models of Parkinson's disease. Upon establishing baseline performance, mice will be treated with an rAAVmediated siRNA construct to silence GD3 synthase (GD3S). The tech