WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release:

Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will receive a grant of $252,285 as an Institutional National Research Service Award from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. The funding will support Basic and Translational Research Training in Pediatric Classical Hematology.

Congressman Steve Cohen made the following statement: