Primary Recipient

GEORGIA HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

Amount

$224,522.00

Award Date

9/25/2009

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 long-term goal of our laboratory is to understand molecular mechanisms underlying the formation and maintenance of synapses. Our model is the NMJ, a cholinergic synapse between motoneurons and muscle cells. The NMJ exhibits the high degree of subcellu