Primary Recipient

IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Amount

$696,824.00

Award Date

6/03/2009

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

In this proposal we will investigate the ability of neurotrophic growth factors delivered via genetically modified stem cell transplants into the eye to reduce the progression of damage and visual loss in an inducible rodent model of glaucoma (chronic ocu