Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE

Amount

$171,990.00

Award Date

7/06/2010

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

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The pathogenesis of cerebral malaria (CM) is poorly understood. We discovered that Tanzanian children with CM have markedly low plasma levels of arginine (Arg) and markedly elevated phenylalanine (Phe). Arg is needed f