Primary Recipient

MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY, INC

Amount

$427,500.00

Award Date

9/22/2009

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

Prion diseases are fatal neurodegenerative diseases of humans and animals. Dissemination in the nervous system occurs by prion agent movement along nerve fibers and transynaptic spread between neurons. The long-term goal of the proposed research is to def