Primary Recipient

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE

Amount

$451,000.00

Award Date

5/05/2009

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

Mechanisms of schizophrenia-like phenotypes in BACE 1 knockout mice. Schizophrenia is known to have a genetic basis but genome-wide association studies have revealed highly inconsistent findings. One gene that has been repeatedly linked to schizophrenia i