Primary Recipient

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE

Amount

$747,144.00

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

Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides (CAMPs) constitute a conserved branch of the innate immune system and is thus one of the first lines of defense against bacterial infections. Several clinical antibiotics, such as colistin and other polymyxins, also belong