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
Grantee
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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