Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

Amount

$300,000.00

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

The rapid rise in antibiotic resistance in the past two decades increases the need for alternative therapeutic strategies. A current approach to developing new antibiotics is to target non-essential functions that reduce virulence of infecting organisms b