Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM

Amount

$210,692.00

Award Date

9/01/2009

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

Our long-term objective is to unravel the molecular genetics of hereditary human blinding diseases, such as retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Genetic defects that lead to photoreceptor cell death in AMD and RP are highl