Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM

Amount

$732,292.00

Award Date

8/14/2009

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

The use of Bacillus anthracis as a bioweapon depends on dispersal of its spores in the environment, entrance into the body, spore uptake by the human host cells, germination of the spores in the host and the pathological consequences of the host response