Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

Amount

$182,580.00

Award Date

1/29/2010

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

About 20 million children suffer from congenital and inherited eye malformations, with most defects occurring in the lens and related parts of the anterior eye segment. This supplemental application will define mutations in a gene that causes lens death