Primary Recipient

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

Amount

$85,845.99

Award Date

8/17/2010

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

Abnormalities in the metabolism of the essential metal ion copper result in a spectrum of devastating human diseases such as Menkes and Wilsons Disease, and bear on neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. Acknowledging t