Primary Recipient

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE

Amount

$241,838.00

Award Date

8/18/2010

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

The applicant has developed evidence that exposure of the developing brain to anesthetic drugs causes developing neurons to die by a process referred to as 'apoptosis'. These findings are potentially important in a public health context, because in the U