Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

Amount

$75,000.00

Award Date

9/01/2009

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

A Lassa vaccine in primates with AIDS. Lassa fever virus is a rodent-borne scourge in West Africa, and Lassa has been classified as a Category A biothreat in the US because of its lethality and aerosol-transmissibility. Efforts to control Lassa fever focu