Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE

Amount

$181,049.00

Award Date

9/28/2009

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

Parkinsons disease (PD) poses a serious threat to the health of a large segment of our society. The present project focuses on strategies for inducing endogenous neuroprotective mechanisms in animal models of the dopamine (DA) deficiency associated with P