Primary Recipient

OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$100,023.00

Award Date

1/29/2010

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

Herpes simplex virus is the major infectious cause of blindness in the US. Herpes keratitis is associated with repeated bouts of reinfection of the cornea by virus derived from sensory neurons HSV particles are transported within neuronal axons from sens