Primary Recipient

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE

Amount

$38,048.00

Award Date

7/15/2009

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

The focus of our current studies has been to determine the role of transcription factor IRF-5 in the antiviral and inflammatory responses to virus infection and TLR ligands. To this effect we have analyzed IFN and cytokine levels in Irf5-/- mice and obser