Senator Grassley secures more money for Hawkeyes

When Senator Chuck Grassley isn't writing letters to Big Ten officials, he actually puts himself to good use.

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. 

Since Senator Grassley is one of the most senior members of COngress and serves as the Committee on Finance's Ranking Member.  As such, he is able to help a lot of the state institutions allocation money.  Grassley might not be good for college football, but he is very good for the University of Iowa and the state as a whole.

Grassley recently announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded competitive grants totaling close to a million dollars to the University of Iowa.  The funds will be distributed as follows:

• $187,500 to UI from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism for an alcohol research program titled, "Role of MicroRNAs in Fetal Alcohol Syndrome."
• $187,500 to UI from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism for an alcohol research program titled, "Prevention of Alcohol Neurotoxicity by PDE4 Inhibitor."
• $319,275 to UI from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for a pharmacology, physiology and biological chemistry research program titled, "Nkx2-5 and congenital heart defects in Xenopus."

Grassley also announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a $679,013 competitive grant to the University of Iowa through the National Institute of Mental Health.  The university will use the funds to conduct mental health research.

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