Primary Recipient

THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK

Amount

$184,414.00

Award Date

9/30/2009

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

Amyloid deposition occurs in more than twenty different human diseases. This project is concerned with amyloid formation by Islet Amyloid Polypeptide (IAPP), the endocrine hormone responsible for pancreatic islet amyloid in type 2 diabetes. Islet amyloid