Primary Recipient

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY

Amount

$504,400.00

Award Date

7/17/2009

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

Most of our successes in controlling viral disease in the human population have been based upon live, replicating viruses. Live vaccinia virus (the original vaccine) was used to end smallpox epidemics. Poliomyelitis, mumps, measles, rubella, and chickenpo