Primary Recipient

WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY (INC)

Amount

$405,000.00

Award Date

7/22/2009

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 goal of this project is to develop a mouse model of myopia by optimizing visual conditions for induction of experimental myopia in mice and investigating the role of the genetic background in the eye's response to visual form deprivation in mice.