Primary Recipient

SALK INSTITUTE FOR BLOGICAL STUDIES

Amount

$1,050,892.00

Award Date

7/16/2009

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

The principles of immune system function are derivable from a consideration of its evolutionary origins. The rate of germline evolution of pathogens is vastly more rapid than that of their vertebrate hosts. The solution used by evolution was to couple a s