Primary Recipient

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY

Amount

$99,074.00

Award Date

8/12/2009

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

It is the long-term goal of this research project to identify molecular mechanisms used by the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) to phagocytose photoreceptor outer segment fragments (POS) shed in a circadian rhythm in the mammalian eye and to understand ho