Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

Amount

$1,120,201.83

Award Date

5/30/2009

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 mechanisms regulating acute inflammation with severe sepsis need to be better defined to design treatments that can be used to protect the lungs and prevent death from multiple organ failure. Pulmonary macrophages are immune-effector cells that, at le