Primary Recipient

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

Amount

$760,930.00

Award Date

9/28/2009

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 experiments performed during the first funded period of this project (2000-2004) led to the first evidence of a direct link between senile plaques and tau pathology in an Alzheimer's disease (AD) cell model system (Rapoport et al., 2002). This study s