Primary Recipient

ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY FACULTY AND STUDENTS CLUB INC, THE

Amount

$171,706.00

Award Date

9/17/2009

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

Fragile X Syndrome presents with a clinical picture of mental retardation and behavioral abnormalities, including autism, resulting from the loss of function of an RNA-binding protein, FMRP. Although a small number of FMRP RNA targets have been validated,