Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM

Amount

$409,750.00

Award Date

5/05/2009

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

Parasites are causative agents of some insect-borne infectious diseases such as malaria and filariasis. Insects respond to infection by parasites with both cellular and humoral immune responses. However, parasites have developed strategies to evade or sup