Science and Technology
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Memphis and Assistant Professor of Computer Science Xiaolei Huang will receive a grant of $50,000 to develop an advanced artificial intelligence system for the diagnosis and management of headache disorders.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that Rhodes College will receive a $502,946 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the impact of concentrations of carbon dioxide on dimorphic fungi. The research, under the direction of Assistant Professor of Biology Qian Shen, will also involve undergraduate students at LeMoyne-Owen College, and could lead to breakthroughs in combatting life-threatening fungal infections and reduce crop damage from fungal agents.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a grant of $192,500 from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for a project entitled “Inhibiting mPGES-1 as a countermeasure to mitigate organophosphate-induced neurotoxicity.”
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today cheered the announcement that Elon Musk’s xAI company will be building the largest and most powerful supercomputer in history – the Gigafactory of Compute -- in the former Electrolux oven factory in Southwest Memphis, and made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a grant of $2,340,000 from the National Science Foundation for a research project entitled “US-UK-China Collab: Understanding the Impact of Poultry Vaccination on H5Nx Avian Influenza Virus Evolution and Ecosystem Dynamics.” The research is under the direction of principal investigator Richard Webby and co-principal investigators Justin Bahl and Nicolas Wu.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced two National Institutes of Health grants totaling $836,990 to the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC).
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a grant of $491,400 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study “transcriptional and metabolic heterogeneity in T cell differentiation.”
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Hospital will receive a $277,125 grant to study Vancomycin-resistant enterococcus from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a $455,000 grant from the National Institute on Aging to study the regulation of proteostasis and tauopathy by maltose-induced signaling.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Memphis will receive a grant of $750,000 from the National Science Foundation for Phase One of its Center for Electrified and Automated Trucking (CEAT) under the direction of Civil Engineering Professor Sabya Mishra.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement: