Primary Recipient

RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER

Amount

$744,009.00

Award Date

8/20/2009

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

Convention suggests that the blood brain barrier (BBB) prevents certain drugs and neurotoxins from gaining access to dopamine (DA) neurons in patients with ParkinsonG??s disease (PD) unless a specific transport mechanism exists. However, we showed in ani