Science and Technology

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center will receive a $231,699 grant from the National Cancer Institute for a project entitled "Targeting defective spliceosomal pathway in myeloid malignancies."

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Memphis will receive a $198,766 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "ERI: Formation Mechanisms and Modeling of Wake Meandering in Wind Farms." The work is under the director of Dr. Daniel Foti in the Mechanical Engineering Department.

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will be receiving a $455,000 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for a project titled "Inflammatory Caspases in Innate Immunity and Inflammation."

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a vocal critic of the Tennessee Valley Authority's relationship with Memphis, its largest customer, today applauded efforts by the Chairs of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and three of its Subcommittees to get answers about the federally chartered company's ratepayer energy burden and apparent resistance to addressing renewable energy and climate change, an issue he has repeatedly raised.

Study involves role of obesity

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a $639,058 grant from the National Cancer Institute to conduct research on a project entitled "Managing Obesity by Leveraging Health Information Technology to Lower Cancer Risk."

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Memphis will be receiving a $700,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "CAREER: Exocyclic Imine Ligands for Electron Transfer" under the direction of Dr. Kensha Clark in the Department of Chemistry.

WASHINGTON – Representatives Steve Cohen (TN-09) and Dina Titus (NV-01) and Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey today led a letter with 58 fellow Congressional colleagues to Senate and House Appropriations Committee and Interior Subcommittee leaders, requesting Interior Department appropriations language for the final Fiscal Year 2022 spending package that promotes the humane and fiscally responsible management of America's iconic wild horses and burros.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Memphis will receive a grant of $181,745 from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "ERI: Compositionally modulated ferrimagnets for spin-orbitronic devices." The research is under the direction of Shawn Pollard, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Materials Science.