Primary Recipient

RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

Amount

$416,211.00

Award Date

5/21/2009

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

Bacillus anthracis is the bacterium that causes the disease anthrax. Concern over its use as a bioweapon has renewed interest in elucidating mechanisms of how it causes disease. B. anthracis promotes its growth in the host through the production of lethal