Cohen Announces More Than $760K for Research at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

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 two grants worth more than $760,000 for research. The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) will give St. Jude $382,813 to fund research on neurological disorders. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) will distribute $380,224 to fund St. Jude’s research on cancer detection and diagnosis.

“St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is one of the premier research hospitals in the world, and the research done there aids suffering children in Memphis and across the country,” said Congressman Cohen. “This new federal funding will enable St. Jude researchers and scientists to continue to find cures, help our children and save lives.”

NINDS is a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NINDS’ mission is to “reduce the burden of neurological disease -- a burden borne by every age group, by every segment of society, by people all over the world.”

NCI is one of the 11 agencies that compose the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NCI’s mission is to “conduct and support research, training, health information dissemination, and other programs with respect to the cause, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of cancer, rehabilitation from cancer, and the continuing care of cancer patients and the families of cancer patients.”

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