Primary Recipient

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$229,578.00

Award Date

9/23/2009

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

Glaucoma is a disease of the visual system often characterized by pressure-induced damage to the optic nerve. This results not only in a loss of ganglion cells from the retina, but also degeneration of their target neurons in the lateral geniculate nucleu