Primary Recipient

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE

Amount

$739,498.00

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

This is a basic research project seeking to study the role of clusters of genes (called mce operons) of a bacterium that causes tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) that are important for this organism to maintain latent infection. In particular, these genes a