Primary Recipient

WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY

Amount

$591,500.00

Award Date

9/28/2009

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

Health Relatedness: Over 400,000 Americans are afflicted with multiple sclerosis (MS), with severe disability ultimately affecting ~85% of the total MS population. Disability in MS is primarily due to demyelination and axonal injury. Axonal injury itself