Primary Recipient

PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Amount

$812,500.00

Award Date

8/17/2009

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

The long-term objective of this research program is to understand how mutations in the ABCC8 gene that encodes the regulatory subunit of the neuroendocrine type ATP-sensitive potassium (KATP) channel, SUR1, cause neonatal diabetes (ND). The two specific a