Primary Recipient

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (INC)

Amount

$760,688.00

Award Date

7/21/2009

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

The goal of this project is to develop a passive immunization approach to prevent humans accidentally exposed to prions from developing a universally fatal disease. Prion diseases (prionoses) are transmissible, invariably fatal, neurodegenerative diseases