Washington, April 6 -- Congressman Steve Cohen issued the following press release:
Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced four grants totaling $2,436,508 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for work at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
One, for $865,360, is from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for allergy immunology and transplantation research under the direction of Dr. Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti. This project aims to understand how a critical protein regulator of immunity and inflammation drives hemolysis - the premature destruction of red blood cells - which may help develop new therapeutics for this disease.
A second, for $816,511, is from the National Human Genome Research Institute, ...