Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

Amount

$79,815.00

Award Date

8/04/2009

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

Photoreceptors are among the most metabolically active cells. They have extraordinarily large mitochondria and consume oxygen at exceptional rates. Energy production by glycolysis and oxidative phosphorylation must keep pace with energy consumption in t