Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER AT DALLAS

Amount

$745,716.00

Award Date

9/24/2009

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

Amyloid is the dangerous brain plaque and tau protein tangles with in the brain cells tend to prevent neurons from communicating each other leading to loss of memory. Positron emission tomography (PET scan) can create image of the harmful beta amyoid plaq