Primary Recipient

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Amount

$965,438.00

Award Date

9/29/2009

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 goal of this proposal is to identify auto antigens in new autoimmune encephalopathies in human patients, and to determine the effects of patient auto antibodies on neurons and synapses. The proposal thus has clinical and basic neuroscience components