Purpose
to develop a cell phone application which plays music with sound waves at resonant frequencies of female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, causing failure of the mosquito’s navigation system and preventing them from feeding and spreading disease
Grantee
Division
Global Health
Date
MAY 2011
Region served
GLOBAL
Committed amount
$99,678
Grant topic
Discovery and Translational Sciences
Duration (months)
18
Grantee location
Orange, New Jersey, United States
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