Science and Technology
As a member of Congress, Congressman Cohen has supported federal funding for programs like the National Science Foundation (NSF), which has led to several innovations in engineering and technology. As the Trump administration and his cabinet work to make Americans doubt the value of science and question proven facts, it is more important than ever to support these programs. Congressman Cohen will continue to support legislation that will increase funding for technological and scientific research, especially in the Memphis medical community.
As a long-time supporter of STEM education programs, he knows that engineering and computer science are increasingly important subjects for all children to study. In Congress, he has cosponsored several bills that would improve funding and accessibility to STEM programs across the country, including legislation that created grants for encouraging underrepresented minority or low-income students to pursue STEM careers.
As a member of Congress, he will continue to encourage progress in science and technology for the American people.
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WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a grant of $830,254 for research into sickle cell disease from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute under the direction of Dr. Mitchell J. Weiss. St. Jude also received a $277,500 grant in August to study the disease.
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WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a grant of $3,010,432 from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for research into diabetes endocrinology. The research is under the direction of Dr. Amandeep Bajwa.
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WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), watched Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testify before the Senate Finance Committee today and released the following statement:
“Despite having been a friend of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as a polio survivor and post-polio syndrome victim and after having watched Kennedy testify before the Senate Finance Committee, it is my duty on behalf of all polio victims past and present to ask him to resign or ask the president to remove him.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a grant of $3,078,607 from the National Institute on Aging to study the relationship between a shortage of antioxidants and age-associated cognitive decline under the direction of Dr. Megan Mulligan.
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WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive two grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) totaling $1,486,541. The first, for $735,373, is from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, for advancing pantothenate kinase activation therapy, under the direction of Dr. Richard E. Lee. The second, for $751,168, is from the National Cancer Institute for the evaluation of cardiovascular outcomes among survivors of 2 Echos-2, under the direction of Dr. Matthew J. Ehrhardt.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a grant of $3,262,585 from the National Institutes on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders for research on cortical mechanisms of innate frequency discrimination under the direction of Dr. Stanislav Zakharenko, director if its Division of Neural Circuits and Behavior.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a grant of $2,503,299 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for work on covalent inhibitors under the direction of Dr. Daniel J. Blair of the Chemical, Biology and Therapeutics Department.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) tonight held a successful town hall meeting where he addressed constituents’ questions about what’s happening to the social safety net under the Trump Administration and vowed to oppose the serious devastation and chaos it is causing. A crowd of more than 300 attended the Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church event for the second in-person town hall Congressman Cohen has held this year.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a grant of $658,561 from the National Cancer Institute for research on improved treatment of breast cancer under the direction of Dr. Wei Li.
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WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive four research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) totaling $2,613,871. The first, for $767,713, is from the National Cancer Institute for work on epigenomic control in neuroblastoma under the direction of Dr. Adam D. Durbin. The second, for $277,500, from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, is for research addressing pediatric patients with Sickle Cell Disease, under the direction of Dr. Andrew M. Heitzer.