Memphis

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today announced that the U.S. Department of Labor has awarded Memphis Bioworks Foundation a federal grant worth $3,743,098 to prepare about 400 long-term unemployed, under-employed, and “discouraged” American workers for specialty occupations for which employers presently use H-1B visas to hire foreign workers.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families has awarded a federal grant worth $797,809 to the Shelby County Government for Project Motivating Offenders Succeeding Tomorrow (MOST), an initiative that was established to reduce recidivism through improving inmates’ parenting skills, committed relationships, and job security.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital a grant worth $820,577 for research projects to discover incidence and etiology of pneumonia in children. The new federal funding will be distributed by the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD).

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded the University of Tennessee Health Science Center $148,000 to study the role of the thalamus in taste processing. The new federal funds will be distributed by the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (NIDCD). NIDCD is mandated to conduct and support biomedical and behavioral research and research training in the normal and disordered processes of hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech and language.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today announced the U.S. Department of Education has awarded Southwest Tennessee Community College $1,250,000 over five years under the Predominantly Black Institutions (PBI) Competitive Grant Program.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today held a Congressional Lunch Briefing on Infant Mortality with film producer Tonya Lewis Lee and spoke at a Congressional Black Caucus health care forum with Congressman John Conyers (D-MI-14). Congressman Cohen’s office coordinated the Capitol Hill infant mortality briefing with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health and the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital a grant worth $709,574 for research into the regulation of lipid metabolism in bacteria. The new federal funding will be distributed by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIMGS).

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital a federal grant worth $393,750 for research into the role Coenzyme A plays in the regulation of human metabolism. The award will be distributed by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS).