Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE

Amount

$149,520.00

Award Date

12/03/2010

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

Huntingtons disease (HD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disease resulting from an autosomal dominant mutation in the gene for the huntingtin protein (htt). It is unknown, however, how mutant huntingtin (mu htt) causes a stereotyped pattern of neuronal los