Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM

Amount

$389,400.00

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

Our research into the pathophysiology of presbyopia, the age-related loss of the eye's ability to focus on near objects, has found evidence in a monkey model that the aging ciliary muscle is restricted in accommodative movement by its posterior elastic a