Primary Recipient

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE

Amount

$1,182,171.00

Award Date

7/17/2009

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

Pathogenesis of glaucomatous optic nerve damage is the funded project title. The project studies how the disease glaucoma causes blindness in human eyes and uses animal models in rats and mice to study both how the disease damages the eye's tissues a