Primary Recipient

THE HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FUND INC

Amount

$297,500.00

Award Date

9/21/2009

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 purpose of the experiments supported by this ARRA supplement was to identify an enzyme that has a critical role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimers Disease, the alpha secretase for the Amyloid Precusor Protein. Briefly, a proteolytic breakdown product