Cohen Announces $500K in New Federal Funds for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today announced St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has been awarded $500,000 from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) for a Pre-clinical PET Imaging System to track the effectiveness of treatment in patients.

“St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital deserves every technological tool necessary to help children struggling with cancer and other catastrophic diseases,” said Congressman Cohen. “These new federal funds will be put to good use and help doctors, researchers and scientists who are providing medical treatment to our children.”

The federal funds were made available through the Biomedical Research Support Shared Instrumentation Grant Program and will fund a state-of-the-art Pre-clinical PET Imaging System -- a device that produces three-dimensional renderings of the human body.

The new equipment will be used for diagnosis and response monitoring and will also be used for research that enables doctors and scientists to develop, test and track the effectiveness of groundbreaking new drugs.

The NCRR -- a component of the National Institute of Health (NIH) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services -- provides laboratory scientists and clinical researchers with the tools and training they need to understand, detect, treat, and prevent a wide range of diseases.