Cohen Announces Nearly $375,000 for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that a $371,875 research grant from the Department of Health and Human Services has been awarded to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in downtown Memphis. The grant, which comes through the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, will be used to fund auto-inflammatory disease and host defense research.

“This funding will be used to continue important research at St. Jude, one of Memphis’s finest health care institutions,” said Congressman Cohen.

The research funded by this grant will provide novel insights into the physiological role of the innate immune system/inflammasome signaling in inflammation, host defense and into the pathogenesis of autoinflammatory syndromes—thus leading to novel therapeutic targets for inflammatory and infectious diseases.

Founded in 1962, St. Jude is one of the world’s leading children’s cancer research hospitals and is focused on finding cures and saving children from cancer and other deadly diseases.