Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.

Amount

$148,416.00

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

This grant provides RO3 level funding to develop mitochondrial transfection of African trypanosomes. Humans exhibit an innate immunity to the mammalian parasite Trypanosoma brucei brucei. Trypanosoma brucei is the causative agent of African human sleeping