Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE

Amount

$416,625.00

Award Date

7/22/2009

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

Tuberculosis(TB), caused by the organism M.tuberculosis (Mtb), kills more than 2 million people worldwide every year(1). Our limited understanding of how vaccine responses mediates protection in the lung remains a major hurdle to successful vaccine desig