Primary Recipient

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Amount

$400,000.00

Award Date

6/15/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

INTELLECTUAL MERIT: The long-term goal of this project is to develop new, broad-spectrum antimicrobial agents. The central hypothesis is that the preassembly of membrane-active polymer chains will enhance their cooperative ability to perforate the membran