Primary Recipient

THE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

Amount

$0.00

Award Date

7/16/2009

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

Prion diseases are fatal neurodegenerative disorders of humans and animals. They result from conversion of PrPC, a normal membrane glycoprotein into PrPSc, a conformationally altered isoform that is infectious in the absence of nucleic acid. Most exogenou