WASHINGTON - Senator Chuck Grassley announced today that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded two grants totaling $652,671 to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa.
The funds will be distributed as shown below.
o Iowa State University received a $315,171 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to help fund a pharmacology, physiology and biological chemistry research project titled, "Coarse-Grained Models of Proteins."
o University of Iowa received a $337,500 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to help fund a drug abuse and addiction research project titled, "Opioid Mechanisms of Analgesia."
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