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July 8, 2024

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a grant of $822,646 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study fungal-bacterial dynamics driving dysregulated host response and lethal synergism.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

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July 3, 2024

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a grant of $773,257 to investigate the mechanism of lysosome segregation and cell fate regulation in dividing hematopoietic stem cells. The funding is from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

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July 1, 2024

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a grant of $1,196,000 for its innovative cardiovascular health program from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

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June 18, 2024

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:

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June 13, 2024

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.

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June 11, 2024

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:

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June 5, 2024

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:

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June 4, 2024

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.

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June 4, 2024

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).

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June 3, 2024

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: