Primary Recipient

WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY & BIOLOGY (INC)

Amount

$418,250.00

Award Date

6/04/2009

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

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection has serious consequences for immunocompromised individuals, such as AIDS and organ transplant patients and congenitally infected newborns. Of symptomatic newborns, 12% die and many of the survivors suffer mental reta