Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON

Amount

$412,500.00

Award Date

7/30/2009

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

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The growing pandemic of type 2 diabetes (DM) is being increasingly recognized as a threat to tuberculosis (TB) control. Epidemiological studies consistently show DM patients are more susceptible to TB, but the underlyi