Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

Amount

$431,750.00

Award Date

8/13/2009

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 awarded project aims to comprehensively identify and characterize genes involved in resistance to human endogenous antimicrobial peptides such as cationic defensin and anionic dermcidin, in Gram-negative bacteria E. coli and Salmonella enterica. Anti