Primary Recipient

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Amount

$752,063.00

Award Date

5/05/2009

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 goal of this research is to characterize expression and assembly of Treponema denticola (Td) surface proteins that mediate interactions with host tissue, thereby gaining insight into mechanisms of periodontal disease. We focus on analysis of two Td pr