Primary Recipient

IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$51,710.00

Award Date

6/04/2009

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

Infections by the Ebola virus can cause severe viral hemorrhagic fever resulting in the suppression of host innate and adaptive immune systems. The Ebola virus inhibits host interferon (IFN) activities in order to replicate, thus resulting in serious dis