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May 10, 2023

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.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

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May 8, 2023

 

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.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

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April 18, 2023

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.

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April 12, 2023

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.

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March 28, 2023

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a $682,433 grant from the National Cancer Institute for a project titled “Sustainability determinants of an intervention to identify clinical deterioration and improve childhood cancer survival in low-resource hospitals.”

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

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March 22, 2023

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Memphis will receive a grant of $414,779 from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering for a project entitled “Downregulation of neutrophil extracellular traps by fibrous regeneration template design.” The project is under the direction of Dr. Gary L. Bowlin, Chairman and Professor in the University’s Biomedical Engineering Department.

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March 20, 2023

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Shelby County will receive a $1,777,632 for its Ryan White HIV/AIDS programs.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

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March 20, 2023

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center will be receiving two significant research grants from the National Institutes of Health. The first, for $756,105, is from the National Institute for Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for work on “Prenatal Longitudinal Metabolomics Profiling for Early Childhood Growth Trajectories and Obesity Risk in a U.S.

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March 16, 2023

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Memphis will receive a grant of $174,960 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a projected entitled “CRII: III: Metadata-guided Imbalance-Modeling for Robust Computational Healthcare” under the direction of Department of Computer Science Assistant Professor Xiaolei Huang.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

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March 3, 2023

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced two National Institutes of Health grants totaling $1,312,806. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive $890,694 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study the interaction between T-cell receptors and the peptide-major histocompatibility complex (MHC).