Durbin, Duckworth Announce More Than $12.2 Million For Health Care Research In Illinois | U.S. Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois

07.21.22

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) immediately introduced $12,245,863 in U.S. Division of Well being and Human Providers (HHS) biomedical analysis grants for Illinois establishments. The funding will likely be put towards analysis packages throughout the state to help medical development in varied fields, starting from vascular illnesses to psychological well being analysis.

“Federal investments in medical analysis pushes our society ahead, bringing us new therapies for the intense circumstances that contact all of our households in a technique or one other,” stated Durbin. “Illinois’ world-class analysis establishments will make good use of this federal funding to make devastating illnesses like most cancers, ALS, or coronary heart illness extra treatable.”

“By rising help for biomedical analysis, we will help ship actual public well being outcomes for Illinois households,” Duckworth stated. “I’ll hold working with Senator Durbin to verify organizations and researchers have the federal help they should enhance analysis, present accessible care and assist save lives.”

Recipients of HHS grants embody:

• Loyola College Chicago: $697,565
• Northwestern College at Chicago: $799,048
• Northwestern College at Chicago: $618,542
• Northwestern College at Chicago: $544,893
• College of Illinois at Chicago: $708,362
• Northwestern College at Chicago: $475,275
• College of Illinois at Chicago: $399,750
• Midwestern College: $726,426
• College of Illinois at Chicago: $388,443
• Loyola College Chicago: $184,530
• College of Illinois at Chicago: $239,850
• Northwestern College at Chicago: $1,510,986
• College of Chicago: $1,561,514
• College of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: $685,464
• College of Illinois at Chicago: $351,478
• Northwestern College at Chicago: $442,662
• College of Illinois at Chicago: $719,502
• College of Illinois at Chicago: $378,177
• Rush College Medical Heart: $813,396

In March 2021, Durbin launched the American Cures Act, which would offer annual price range will increase of 5 % plus inflation at America’s prime 4 biomedical analysis businesses: the Nationwide Institutes of Well being, the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, the Division of Protection Well being Program, and the Veterans Medical and Prosthetics Analysis Program. Over the past seven years, by the Appropriations course of, Durbin has efficiently labored on a bipartisan foundation to extend funding for the Nationwide Institutes of Well being by almost 50 %.

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