Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE

Amount

$143,908.00

Award Date

7/06/2010

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

Spinal muscular atrophy is the most common inherited motor neuron disease in humans, with an incidence of 1 in 8,000 live births. It is a leading cause of hereditary infant and childhood mortality. Homozygous deletion of the survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1)