Durbin, Duckworth Announce More Than $8 Million In Federal Funding For Health Care Research In Illinois

Durbin, Duckworth Announce More Than $8 Million In Federal Funding For Health Care Research In Illinois

CHICAGO - U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) today announced $8,196,118 in U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) medical research grants for Illinois institutions. This 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:

• Lurie's Children Hospital of Chicago (Lung Disease Research): $2,070,206
• Northwestern University at Evanston and Chicago Campuses (Mental Health Research Grants): $1,195,722
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biological Chemistry Research): $243,361
• Rush University Medical Center (Allergy, Immunology, and Transplantation Research): $243,361
• University of Illinois at Chicago (Aging Research): $1,193,179
• University of Chicago (Allergy, Immunology, and Transplantation Research): $752,511
• Northwestern University at Chicago (Research and Training in Complementary and Alternative Medicine): $578,491
• Northwestern University at Chicago (Lung Diseases Research): $799,354
• Northwestern University (Vision Research): $251,573
• University of Chicago (Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biological Chemistry Research): $445,033
• ShirleyRyan Ability Lab (formerly Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago) (Research for Mothers and Children): $666,688

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: the 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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