Science and Technology

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach will receive a grant of $1,018,872 for the Delta State Rural Development Network Grant Program. He also announced that the University of Memphis will receive a grant of $413,756 for a project entitled “Transcranial Ultrasound Algorithms and Device for Rapid Stroke Determination by Paramedics” under the direction of Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Carl Heckerhoff.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) has written to Dr. Robert Califf, Commissioner of Food and Drugs at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, expressing concern about recent studies suggesting maltodextrin, sucralose and other artificial sweeteners or non-sugar substitutes could be harmful to human health.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today spoke from the House floor in favor of the debt ceiling compromise, despite some provisions he doesn’t like, and then voted for it. While there was much in the measure that he didn’t like, such as a rollback of environmental regulations and added work requirements for SNAP recipients, he said, “As Members of Congress, we have tough decisions to make.”

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced two National Science Foundation grants totaling $741,268 to the University of Memphis. One grant, for $148,020, will underwrite collaborative research uncovering and enhancing pathways to psychological safety at work for racial minority women under the direction of Associate Professor of Management Kristen P. Jones. The second grant, for $593,248, supports super-resolution 3D ultrasound imaging of brain activity under the direction of Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Carl D.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Memphis will receive a $415,516 grant from the National Cancer Institute to study organotropic metastasis of breast cancer under the direction of Chemistry Professor Dr. Xiohua Huang.

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WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a $479,100 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to conduct therapeutic genome editing research.

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WASHINGTON -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Memphis will receive a $433,349 grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for a project entitled “Effect of ambient heat on chronic kidney disease and end-stage kidney disease among U.S. veterans” under the direction of School of Public Health Assistant Professor Abu Mohammed Naser Titu.

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Memphis will receive a grant of $391,858 from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: Costs and Trade-offs of Phenotypically Flexible Responses to Winter Temperature Variability in Birds.” The research is under the direction of College of Health Sciences Assistant Professor Yufeng Zhang.