Primary Recipient

THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY

Amount

$424,875.00

Award Date

5/21/2009

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 proposed research addresses the development of a vaccine that would be effective for the control and prevention of Nipah virus (NiV) infection, which poses a serious public health as well as veterinary health hazard in the U.S. NiV is a newly describe