Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON

Amount

$290,035.00

Award Date

8/12/2009

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

Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a potentially blinding disease of premature infants in which retinal blood vessels fail to develop properly. A multicentered clinical trial (CRYO-ROP Study) sponsored by the National Eye Institute demonstrated that peri