Primary Recipient

VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$74,000.00

Award Date

8/28/2009

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

During its replication cycle in red blood cells, the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum ingests and catabolizes up to 75% of the host cell's hemoglobin in an acidic degradative organelle called the food vacuole. Hemoglobin catabolism is required