Children and Families
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a $601,250 grant from the National Cancer Institute for a project entitled “Discovering the mechanisms underlying oncogenesis by ZFTA-RELA and pinpointing therapeutic targets.”
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive an “Outstanding Investigator” grant of $1,110,000 from the National Cancer Institute for research into the mechanism of regulated cell death under the direction of Dr. Douglas R. Green, who holds the Peter C. Doherty Endowed Chair of Immunology at the hospital.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that Porter-Leath Inc. will receive a grant of $2,384,972 from the Administration for Children and Families Office of Head Start to operate its Early Head Start programs in Shelby County.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a grant of $462,500 for research targeting ribonucleoprotein assemblies from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) noted the passing of television talk show host and civic activist Phil Donahue on Sunday at the age of 88, and made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a $515,504 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to study yeast transcription.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a $475,020 grant to study aspects of red blood cell production from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the Shelby County Board of Education will receive a $367,500 grant to improve adolescent health from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Chronic Diseases Prevention and Health Promotion.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a grant of $773,257 to investigate the mechanism of lysosome segregation and cell fate regulation in dividing hematopoietic stem cells. The funding is from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a grant of $1,196,000 for its innovative cardiovascular health program from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement: