Primary Recipient

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

Amount

$1,597,119.00

Award Date

7/14/2009

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

The goal of this project is to identify functional variants of environmentally responsive genes that are biologically relevant to motor neuron degeneration of sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (SALS) and primary lateral sclerosis (PLS). Considerable