Primary Recipient

TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK

Amount

$160,592.00

Award Date

5/15/2009

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 characterized by the progressive degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the ventral midbrain (VM), resulting in striatal dopamine (DA) depletion. The neuronal loss is severe for DA neurons in the substantia nigra (SN), while t