Primary Recipient

WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY

Amount

$464,635.00

Award Date

6/01/2009

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 (PD) is a devastating neurodegenerative movement disorder characterized by a loss of dopamine-containing neurons of substantia nigra, which currently affects about 1.5 million people in the United States. While the causes of PD are unk