Primary Recipient

MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

Amount

$737,500.00

Award Date

6/03/2009

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 broad objective of this project is to prevent degeneration of cone photoreceptors, which are essential for human color vision. In a disease such as Leber Congenital Amaurosis (LCA), the levels of the native chromophore of visual pigments, the Vitamin