Primary Recipient

THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK

Amount

$354,754.00

Award Date

9/16/2009

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 goal of the current grant is to understand the role of ribbon synapses in communicating visual information in the retina. Visual signals originate in the photoreceptor cells, which then communicate with second-order bipolar neurons via ribbon synapses

Vendors Connected to Award

Vendor	Role	Amount
Leica Microsystems Incorporated	Primary vendor	$43,354.00
Olympus America Incorporated	Primary vendor	$87,380.90