WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley today said that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded four competitive grants totaling $925,638 to the University of Iowa.
The University of Iowa will receive the grant funds as described below.
· $372,317 from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to help pay for a research project titled, "Mechanisms and Meanings of Impaired Microvascular Responses in Human Sepsis."
· $300,874 from the National Cancer Institute to help pay for a research project titled, "Chemoradiotherapy for Multiple Myeloma."
· $274,247 from the National Cancer Institute to help pay for a research project titled, "Mechanism of Dnmt1 Up-regulation by Fhit Loss."
· $249,000 from the National Cancer Institute to help pay for a research project titled, "Monoclonal Antibody-Induced NK Cell Activation and Complement."