Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE

Amount

$416,625.00

Award Date

5/14/2009

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

Depression is a leading cause of disability worldwide. Yet, despite the discovery of clinically-effective antidepressants over fifty years ago, the biological mechanisms of the illness remain mostly uncharacterized. As a result, very few new drugs are dev