Primary Recipient

VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY

Amount

$398,399.00

Award Date

5/15/2009

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

This proposal plans to develop a technique that will permit the selective activation of individual subtypes of neurons by expressing in specific types of neurons genes of proteins that are capable of depolarizing only those neurons when the a