Washington, May 5 -- Congressman Steve Cohen issued the following press release:

Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will receive two grants totaling $3,109,370 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). One, for $1,686,167, is from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for research on early life viral infections' impact on immune development trajectories under the direction of Dr. Octavio Ramilo. The second, for $1,423,203, is from the National Cancer Institute for support of a multi-institutional consortium evaluating experimental treatments for pediatric brain tumors under the direction of Dr. Arzu Onar-Thomas of the Department of Biostatistics.

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