Science and Technology
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a $764,284 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for research on the structure and functional mechanism involved with molecular chaperones and protein kinases.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has awarded Regional One Medical Center funding for 2.33 new medical residency positions through the Department of Health and Human Services Direct Graduate Medical Education Program. It has also awarded the medical center funding for 2.33 positions and its Indirect Graduate Medical Education Program.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Memphis Health Center will receive $515,258 and Tri-State Community Health Center will receive $139,472 to expand their COVID-19 vaccination capacities.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Christian Brothers University will receive a $749,877 grant from the National Science Foundation to help it retain promising engineering and computer science students.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON -- Today, U.S. Representatives Steve Cohen (TN-09), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Alan Lowenthal (CA-47), Mike Quigley (IL-05), and U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) led a bicameral group of 58 members of Congress in a letter to the General Services Administration (GSA) in response to the agency’s potential rulemaking focused on reducing unnecessary single-use plastics in government purchases.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a $507,693 grant for ethanol research involving the arteries and brain from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
“I am always pleased to see scientific research investments in our Memphis medical school. The research that this supports will improve health outcomes and potentially save lives.”
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MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will receive a $1,638,000 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences' "New Innovator Award" program for research on metabolism.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a $315,415 grant from the National Institute on Aging for research on functional genetic analysis of epigenetic age acceleration and the regulatory landscape of the methylome.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a $1,050,313 grant from the National Cancer Institute for research determining the contribution of microbial-derived metabolites to protective immunity in obesity-driven cancer risk.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will receive a grant of $432,000 from the National Cancer Institute for pediatric oncology education.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement: