Primary Recipient

RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER

Amount

$62,811.00

Award Date

9/20/2010

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 project is to determine the mechanism of how HIV induces the non-classical major histocompatiblity complex class I molecule, HLA-G and how HLA-G may prevent natural killer cells from killing HIV-infected cells.