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