Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY

Amount

$379,470.00

Award Date

5/21/2009

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

Emergence of new viruses is a continuing threat to our society. Evolution of plus- stranded RNA viruses is frequently driven by RNA recombination, a process that joins noncontiguous RNA segments together, creating novel combinations of genes or regulatory