Primary Recipient

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Amount

$718,108.00

Award Date

7/16/2009

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 sphingolipid storage diseases are a group of ~40 genetically distinct disorders that result from inherited deficiencies of lysosomal hydrolytic activities or lipid transport. Among this group is Niemann-Pick type C disease, an autosomal recessive diso