Primary Recipient

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

Amount

$419,375.00

Award Date

5/14/2009

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

In this project we will test the hypothesis that pharmacological targeting of kainate receptors, a family of ionotropic glutamate receptors, represents a viable therapeutic strategy in an animal model of multiple sclerosis (MS). Glutamate receptor activat