{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-releases/duckworth-durbin-announce-nearly-11-million-in-federal-funding-for-health-care-research-in-illinois", "Duckworth, Durbin Announce Nearly $11 Million in Federal Funding for Health Care Research in Illinois", "2024-09-24", "2024", "2024-09", "Democrat", "Senate", "IL", "Tammy Duckworth", "D000622", "www.duckworth.senate.gov", "duckworth", "https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "[WASHINGTON, D.C.] \u2013 U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) today announced $10,906,668 in U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) medical research grants for Illinois institutions. The federal funding through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will be put toward research programs across the state to support medical advancement in various fields, ranging from lung diseases to mental health research.\n\n\u201cInvesting in our world-renowned medical research facilities and institutions is a critical part in helping ensure high quality health care for all Illinoisans,\u201d Duckworth said. \u201cI will keep working with Senator Durbin to make sure our health organizations have the federal support they need to continue improving mental health research and advancing medical treatments for patients and families across Illinois.\u201d\n\n\u201cFederal investments in medical research pushes our society forward, bringing us new treatments for the serious conditions that impact so many American families,\u201d said Durbin. \u201cIllinois\u2019 world-class research institutions will make good use of this federal funding to make devastating diseases more treatable.\u201d\n\nRecipients of HHS grants include:\n\nChestnut Health Systems, Inc (Drug Abuse and Addiction Research Programs): $759,748\n\nNorthwestern University at Chicago (Research for Mothers and Children): $718,900\n\nNorthwestern University at Chicago (Nursing Research): $827,872\n\nUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Research and Training in Complementary and Alternative Medicine): $671,176\n\nNorthwestern University at Chicago (Lung Diseases Research): $2,803,961\n\nNorthwestern University at Chicago (Human Genome Research): $745,930\n\nNorthwestern University (Aging Research): $388,067\n\nRosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (Mental Health Research Grants): $535,696\n\nNorthwestern University at Chicago (Aging Research): $1,536,774\n\nNorthwestern University at Chicago (Cancer Treatment Research): $90,538\n\n-30-", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-releases/duckworth-durbin-announce-nearly-11-million-in-federal-funding-for-health-care-research-in-illinois"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7438601460307837, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}