This contract is one part of the pre-clinical portion of the NIAID Antiviral Substances Program. The Program supports five separate awards to investigators who have developed animal models of viral infections which can be used to test the activity of antiviral agents in vivo. Compounds are evaluated for efficacy both therapeutically and prophylactically. Studies of drug toxicity and effects of drug treatment on the immune response to infection are also pursued. Combination chemotherapy studies are encouraged. The currently awarded series of contractors have at their disposal the following models: University of Utah - herpes encephalitis in mouse, neonatal herpes in mouse, genital herpes in the guinea pig; University of Massachusetts - influenza in the mouse; Yale University - cytomegalovirus in the guinea pig; Baylor College of Medicine - respiratory syncytial virus in the cotton rat, and Tulane University - simian varicella and parainfluenza type 3 in the African Green monkey.

Project Start
1985-12-02
Project End
1990-10-01
Budget Start
1987-11-17
Budget End
1988-12-01
Support Year
Fiscal Year
1988
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester
Department
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
660735098
City
Worcester
State
MA
Country
United States
Zip Code
01655