Primary Recipient

DUKE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$429,000.00

Award Date

5/29/2009

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 project will develop and apply methods to analyze functioning of a microbicide product vaginal epithelial coating layer - to inhibit transport of HIV virions from semen to tissue and enable microbicide molecules to disable virus. We will contribute t