Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

Amount

$728,032.00

Award Date

9/01/2009

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

Influenza is both a major public health threat and a NIAID bio defense category C priority pathogen. About 36,000 people die every year in the United States alone due to infection with commonly circulating influenza A viruses. Nearly 90% of these deaths a