Grant: WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Primary Recipient
WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Amount
$903,900.00
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
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder characterized by a loss of substantia nigra pars compacta neurons, which currently affects 1.5 million people in the United States. Although rare mutations associated with familial forms