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Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-06) today announced that the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor will receive $7,348,076 in federal grant funding from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to conduct research in areas including Neurological Disorders, Heart and Vascular Diseases, Deafness and Communicative Disorders, Mental Health Cancer Manpower Lung Diseases, Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biological Chemistry, Vision, Allergy, Immunology, and Transplantation, and Injury Control.

More than $1 million of this funding is for the University of Michigan’s Injury Prevention Center, which addresses urgent injury prevention issues with research, education, and outreach. To learn more about UM’s injury prevention center, click here. 

"This funding is crucial to continue research into injury control. Over $1 million will be allocated to supporting and preventing injury through new research and technology," Dingell said. "This funding will make a difference in the lives of Americans, in MI-06 and beyond.”

Projects receiving funding include:

• $1,054,048 for Clinical Research Related to Neurological Disorders
• $689,072 for Heart and Vascular Diseases Research
• $286,804 for Biological Research Related to Deafness and Communicative Disorders
• $801,796 for Mental Health Research Grants
• $431,196 for Cancer Research Manpower
• $843,157 for Lung Diseases Research
• $390,000 for Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biological Chemistry Research
• $139,916 for Vision Research
• $542,858 for Allergy, Immunology, and Transplantation Research
• $1,006,724 for Injury Control Research Centers

Find a full list of projects receiving grant funding here.

HHS is the largest grant-making agency in the US. Most HHS grants are provided directly to states, territories, tribes, and educational and community organizations, then distributed to eligible individuals and organizations. For more information on HHS grants click here.