Durbin, Duckworth Announce Nearly $11 Million In Federal Funding For Health Care Research In Illinois

Durbin, Duckworth Announce Nearly $11 Million In Federal Funding For Health Care Research In Illinois

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) today announced $10,906,668 in U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) medical research grants for Illinois institutions. The federal funding through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will be put toward research programs across the state to support medical advancement in various fields, ranging from lung diseases to mental health research.

"Federal investments in medical research pushes our society forward, bringing us new treatments for the serious conditions that impact so many American families," said Durbin. "Illinois' world-class research institutions will make good use of this federal funding to make devastating diseases more treatable."

"Investing in our world-renowned medical research facilities and institutions is a critical part in helping ensure high quality health care for all Illinoisans," Duckworth said. "I will keep working with Senator Durbin to make sure our health organizations have the federal support they need to continue improving mental health research and advancing medical treatments for patients and families across Illinois."

Recipients of HHS grants include:

• Chestnut Health Systems, Inc (Drug Abuse and Addiction Research Programs): $759,748
• Northwestern University at Chicago (Research for Mothers and Children): $718,900
• Northwestern University at Chicago (Nursing Research): $827,872
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Research and Training in Complementary and Alternative Medicine): $671,176
• Northwestern University at Chicago (Lung Diseases Research): $2,803,961
• Northwestern University at Chicago (Human Genome Research): $745,930
• Northwestern University (Aging Research): $388,067
• Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (Mental Health Research Grants): $535,696
• Northwestern University at Chicago (Aging Research): $1,536,774
• Northwestern University at Chicago (Cancer Treatment Research): $90,538

Durbin has long been a strong advocate for robust medical research.? His legislation, the American Cures Act, would provide annual budget increases of five percent plus inflation at America's top four biomedical research agencies: NIH, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Defense Health Program, and the Veterans Medical and Prosthetics Research Program. Thanks to Durbin's efforts to increase medical research funding, Congress has provided NIH with a 60 percent funding increase over the past nine years.

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