CONGRESSMAN COHEN ANNOUNCES $2.3M IN HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES GRANTS TO ST. JUDE

Washington, July 21 -- Congressman Steve Cohen issued the following press release:

Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced $2,316,842 in Department of Health and Human Services grants to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. One grant, for $784,842, will support graduate medical education. A second, for $1,077,000 from the National Cancer Institute is for integrating systems immunology with immunometabolism and cancer immunity under the direction of Dr. Hongbo Chi. A third grant, for $455,000 from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, will study genome stability in glia and diseases under the director of Dr. Peter J. McKinnon.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

"St. Jude continues to undertake ...