Grant: EMORY UNIVERSITY
Primary Recipient
EMORY UNIVERSITY
Amount
$245,138.00
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
Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is a common inherited neurodegenerative disease caused by mutations or deletions in the SMN1 gene that encodes for the ubiquitous Survival of Motor Neuron Protein (SMN), which is essential for the assembly of spliceosomal snR