Cohen Announces More Than $370,000 for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

MEMPHIS, TN -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital was awarded $371,875 in funding for biological research related to deafness and other communicative disorders. The funding was awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

“This grant will help our doctors and scientists at St. Jude better understand the communicative disorders, including deafness, that affect millions of people around the globe,” said Congressman Cohen.

Today’s funding will be used for a project researching synaptic mechanisms of auditory memory. The grant was awarded through the Research Project Grant program of the NIH’s National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD). Research Project Grants, which make up the largest single category of support provided by the NIDCD, are awarded to organizations to help them pursue research interests.

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital was founded in 1962, and it has since worked to find cures for the catastrophic diseases of childhood.

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