Functions of viral chemokine receptor homologues important for cytomegalovirus pathogenesis and latency

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/631401

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) causes life-threatening disease in babies, transplant recipients and HIV-AIDS patients. We will focus on a CMV gene that has been 'hijacked' from the host cell and enables the virus to switch on signalling molecules within infected cells. We will determine how these signals enable CMV to infect sites of the body that are critical for virus transmission and contribute to long-term virus persistence. Our results will provide new strategies for drugs against CMV.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2010

End Date: 01-01-2013

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $461,597.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Medical Virology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

cytomegalovirus | host-pathogen interaction | infectious disease | microbiology-virology | understanding virus-host interactions | viral chemokine receptor homologue | viral persistence | virus persistence and latency

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