Primary Recipient

AKONNI BIOSYSTEMS INC.

Amount

$2,985,932.00

Award Date

9/20/2010

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

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) infects approximately one-third of the worldG??s population, with approximately nine million new cases of TB occurring each year and two million deaths attributable to the disease. Culture-based methods remain the gold sta