WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley said that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a $311,250 competitive grant to the University of Iowa through the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
The university will use the money to fund the project entitled, “Mechanical stress and skeletal plasticity after spinal cord injury in humans.”
Each year, thousands of local Iowa organizations, colleges and universities, individuals and state agencies apply for competitive grants from the federal government. The funding is then awarded based on each local organization or individual’s ability to meet criteria set by the federal entity.