Primary Recipient

SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE

Amount

$51,710.00

Award Date

7/22/2009

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

Coxsackievirus B (CVB) infection is the most common infectious cause of heart inflammation and can lead to chronic disease and cardiac failure. I have found that CVB3 induces minimal T cell responses in a murine model of infection and this may be associat