Primary Recipient

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Amount

$374,137.00

Award Date

8/14/2009

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

Abstract An exciting development in the innate immunity field is the discovery that macrophages enlist autophagy to protect their cytoplasm from infection. Nutrient deprivation has long been known to induce autophagy, but how infection rapidly triggers th