Primary Recipient

OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$78,803.00

Award Date

9/07/2009

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

Human periventricular white matter injury (PWMI) is the major form of brain injury and the leading cause of cerebral palsy in survivors of premature birth. With advances in neonatal care, diffuse myelination disturbances and cerebral gray matter atrophy a