Primary Recipient

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE

Amount

$446,782.00

Award Date

7/15/2009

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 project is aimed at developing new image analysis techniques to characterize brain atrophy in the R6/2 mouse line, a mouse model of Huntington's disease (HD). Atrophy of specific brain structures is known to be an important marker of HD and other