Primary Recipient

WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY

Amount

$499,329.00

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

M. tuberculosis (Mtb) has caused a global health emergency. Yet little new chemotherapy against Mtb has emerged in decades. This application aims to target a pathway in the pathogen that is not essential for the pathogen to survive in vitro but is essenti