Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER AT DALLAS

Amount

$322,892.00

Award Date

8/13/2009

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

This projects seeks to understand the membrane biology of Treponema pallidum through elucidation of the organisms membrane liproproteins. Such structure and function information could be central to the rational design of a future syphillis vaccine.