Primary Recipient

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Amount

$435,959.00

Award Date

9/20/2009

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

Several devastating diseases that are caused by nerve degeneration, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), have been unified by a common underlying theme: the clumping of a protein, TDP 43, in nerve cells. Our proposed studies aim to provide new m