Children and Families
It is important to provide all children and families access to a quality, affordable education and healthcare to help them secure a prosperous future. As a member of Congress, I have championed for legislation that makes it easier for Americans to balance work and family responsibilities, expands support for foster youth care, and serves the needs of children with special behavioral health needs and/or medical disabilities. I also firmly believe that assisting families in their pursuit of higher education is critical for our nation's growth and success.
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MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the Shelby County Board of Education will receive a $367,500 grant to improve adolescent health from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Chronic Diseases Prevention and Health Promotion.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
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:
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:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today announced that the City of Memphis will receive a $21,832,817 grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) discretionary grant program to fill the final gaps in the Wolf River Greenway.
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.
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:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Hospital will receive a $277,125 grant to study Vancomycin-resistant enterococcus from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today commended Israel’s Shin Bet intelligence agency and the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) for recovering the bodies of three hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. He condemned the terrorist group and called for the immediate release of all remaining hostages, and made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a $455,000 grant from the National Institute on Aging to study the regulation of proteostasis and tauopathy by maltose-induced signaling.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and Senator Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico, a member of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, today introduced the DOT Victim and Survivor Advocate Act to create a crash victim-advocate position at the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT).