Primary Recipient

MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

Amount

$403,521.00

Award Date

9/01/2009

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

Candida albicans is the most frequently isolated fungal pathogen of humans. This fungus can switch between three distinct morphological forms: yeast, hyphae, and pseudohyphae. The reversible transition between the unicellular (yeast) and filamentous (pseu