Primary Recipient

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (THE)

Amount

$892,271.00

Award Date

9/09/2009

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

Parkinson's disease is a slowly progressive degenerative disorder with classic motor symptoms that include resting tremor, cogwheel rigidity and bradykinesia. The disease produces invariant loss of dopamine neurons in the substantia nigra (SN) with the ha