Primary Recipient

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Amount

$249,117.00

Award Date

9/13/2010

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

Mycobacterial tuberculosis (Mtb) is an obligatory aerobe that causes tuberculosis. Understanding of the growth and survival mechanisms of Mtb is critical to developing new antibiotics against TB. In order to obtain energy required for various cellular a