Primary Recipient

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

Amount

$885,485.00

Award Date

5/26/2009

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 proposed research is directed at the study of growth-associated protein GAP-43, an essential presynaptic protein with critical functions in neural development (axonal pathfinding), and plasticity (long-term potentiation, learning and memory). Because