Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES

Amount

$423,500.00

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

Trypanosomes and related protozoa cause a variety of debilitating diseases in the tropics including Human African Sleeping Sickness, Chagas Disease and various forms of Leishmaniasis. The goal of our work is to study pathways present in the parasite but