Purpose
to engineer baker’s yeast to produce the red tomato pigment lycopene when exposed to the cholera pathogen in drinking water for use in a sensor to monitor cholera in at-risk communities.
Grantee
Division
Global Health
Date
OCTOBER 2011
Region served
GLOBAL
Committed amount
$100,000
Grant topic
Discovery and Translational Sciences
Duration (months)
19
Grantee location
New York, New York, United States
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