Primary Recipient

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY

Amount

$92,824.00

Award Date

8/01/2009

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

Biofilm formation has a major impact on human health as the underling cause of medical device-associated infection, which causes systemic infections that often prove fatal. Our study focuses on C. albicans and C. parapsilosis, which are the major contribu