Primary Recipient

DUKE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$392,500.00

Award Date

7/26/2010

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

Herpes Simplex Virus 1 (HSV-1) and HSV-2 are related human ?-herpesviruses that share the ability to establish long-term latent infections in neurons of primary sensory ganglia. Like other herpesviruses, HSV-1 and HSV-2 express virally encoded microRNAs (