Primary Recipient

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

Amount

$102,208.00

Award Date

8/14/2009

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

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is the leading cause of pathogenic infectious disease mortality worldwide. Roughly one-third of the worldG??s population is infected with Mtb and nearly two million people die from this disease per year. Thus, there is a c