Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NJ (INC)

Amount

$692,480.00

Award Date

7/17/2009

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 well recognized that the photoreceptor synaptic terminal responds to injury and disease by making structural changes. In retinal detachment the rod axon retracts toward the cell body, thereby uncoupling the first synapse in the visual pathway, wher