Primary Recipient

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Amount

$208,387.00

Award Date

9/21/2009

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

Although the brain is an immune privileged site, adaptive immunity can provide resistance to various infectious diseases that affect the CMS. This is illustrated by the important role that T cells play in resistance to Toxoplasmic encephalitis (TE) which