Primary Recipient

ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL

Amount

$105,520.00

Award Date

7/22/2009

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

Infection by pandemic strains of influenza A virus, as well as the currently circulating H5N1 avian strains, results in a high rate of lethality, primarily due to the excessive accumulation of proinflammatory cytokines/chemokines that precedes cellular in