Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS M D ANDERSON

Amount

$770,000.00

Award Date

5/06/2009

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

Aspergillus fumigatus and other species are increasingly the cause of morbidity and mortality among immunocompromised patients. Infections caused by these fungi are most prevalent in neutropenic patients with hematological malignancies. In the past few ye