Primary Recipient

LOYOLA UNIVERSITY

Amount

$88,610.00

Award Date

12/11/2009

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 is a progressive neurodegenerative disease, where the dopaminergic neuronal cells in the brain slowly undergo cell death, leading to a decrease in dopamine production and causing muscle rigidity and tremors. Several proteins have been