Primary Recipient

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE

Amount

$578,831.00

Award Date

9/28/2009

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

Sepsis is the leading cause of death in most intensive care units with over 210,000 people succumbing tooverwhelming infection (or the resultant multiple organ failure) in the United States annually. A recentepidemiologic study estimated that 750,000 peop