Cohen Announces More Than $200,000 for University of Tennessee Health Science Center

[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced the Department of Health and Human Services has awarded the University of Tennessee Health Science Center a federal grant of $228,000 for an exploratory and developmental project on taste research.

“This significant federal investment will help the UT Health Science Center stay at the forefront of medical research,” said Congressman Cohen. “UT Health Science Center has a long history of research, in addition to its educational mission, and I am proud they are here in Memphis.”

The $228,000, awarded as part of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorder’s Biological Research Related to Deafness and Communicative Disorders program, will go towards developing the UT Health Science Center’s new project on taste responses in defined cell types in gustatory cortex.