Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS

Amount

$828,940.00

Award Date

7/17/2009

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

The Role of LPS and Toll-like Receptors in Plague, Award Number R01AI057588 from the NIH - Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is proposing to use Y. pestis strains that generate modified LPS to study evasion and activation of innate immunity by