Africa Health Research Institute NPC

Durban, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa


Purpose

to develop new drugs to boost the effects of tuberculosis vaccination by performing a genetic screen, Tn-seq, to identify specific bacterial genes protecting the causative Mycobacterium tuberculosis from vaccine-mediated immune destruction

Division

Global Health

Date

June 2020

Region Served

GLOBAL

Committed amount

$200,000

Grant topic

Discovery and Translational Sciences

Duration (months)

52

Grantee location

Durban, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

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