Primary Recipient

OAKLAND UNIVERSITY

Amount

$709,009.00

Award Date

6/05/2009

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

This award addresses critically important unresolved issues concerning the antioxidant capacities of vertebrate photoreceptor cells and inner retinal neurons. A common factor in the loss of photoreceptor cells appears to be reactive oxygen species generat