Congressman Cohen Announces $7.2 Million in NIH Grants to St. Jude

WASHINGTON - Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced $7,619,427 in National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants to three Memphis-based medical research centers. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will receive $6,752,102 from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) under a Cancer Center Support grant to advance cures for pediatric cancer. St. Jude will also receive an NCI grant of $38,009 for its pediatric oncology career development program and $79,780 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for research into fluconazole resistance under the direction of Dr. Darian Santana of the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

The University of Memphis will receive a grant of $365,000 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for environmental research and the University of Tennessee Heath Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a grant of $41,536 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for research on aspergillosis under the direction of Dr. Harrison Thorn in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

"Memphis is fortunate to have these three world-renown medical research institutions, and I am pleased to see this substantial federal investment in the important work they do. I congratulate all of those whose research will be underwritten by these grants for their life-saving efforts."

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