Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

Amount

$156,000.00

Award Date

5/15/2009

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

Although Parkinson's disease (PD) was first described in 1817, the cause still remains obscure. A large body of experimental evidence indicates that destruction of dopaminergic neurons may result from a series of inter-related mechanisms involving microgl