Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON

Amount

$412,500.00

Award Date

5/15/2009

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 objective of this proposal is to produce a panel of stable conformational isomers of human a- synuclein (aSyn) for use as immunogens to develop immunotherapy of Parkinson disease (PD). Human a-Synuclein (a-Syn) is a recognized protein marker for the p