Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1048784
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Glutamate transporters are vacuum cleaners in the brain that suck the neurotransmitter glutamate into cells. When the glutamate vacuum breaks down or becomes blocked, glutamate levels outside cells increase, leading to cell death in the brain. This process underlies the damage in many brain diseases including Alzheimer’s disease and stroke. The aim of this project is to understand the mechanism of the glutamate vacuum cleaner so we can develop therapeutics to fix it when it breaks down.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2013
End Date: 2015
Funding Scheme: Project Grants
Funding Amount: $373,144.00
Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Structural Biology (incl. Macromolecular Modelling)
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
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