Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE

Amount

$420,698.00

Award Date

5/20/2009

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

Trypanosomatids are protozoan hemoflagellates responsible for a variety of human diseases, including Chagas' disease, leishmaniasis, and African sleeping sickness, which account for nearly one million deaths per year. The unique genetic phenomena occurrin