[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 63 (Thursday, May 19, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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[Congressional Record: May 19, 1994]
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 DR. ROBERT GOOD HONORED AS THE MOST PROLIFIC SCIENTIFIC AUTHOR OF OUR 
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                          HON. C.W. BILL YOUNG

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                         Thursday, May 19, 1994

  Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, many of our Nation's and our 
world's most respected scientists and medical researchers will gather 
this weekend in St. Petersburg, FL, to honor their colleague, Dr. 
Robert A. Good on the 50th anniversary of the publication of this 
legendary scholar's first scientific paper.
  It is an honor for me to not only represent Dr. Good, a distinguished 
research professor and head of allergy and clinical immunology at the 
University of South Florida and All Children's Hospital in St. 
Petersburg, but to call him my friend. He is a friend who has helped 
educate me on the miraculous breakthroughs that have taken place in the 
biomedical field during his brilliant professional career. He is also a 
man who has touched the lives of so many colleagues, students, and 
patients.
  Families throughout the world have reaped the benefits of his years 
of work. Thousands are alive today because of his research and clinical 
findings.
  This weekend's major scientific conference, entitled ``Perspectives 
in Immunology and Medicine 1944-1994,'' is a symposium which is the 
latest in honors this remarkable man has received. He is the recipient 
of the prestigious Lasker Award, as well as 80 other scientific awards 
and honorary degrees. He is also the past president of both the 
American Association of Immunologists and the American Association of 
Pathologists.
  As the most distinguished academic pediatrician of the past decade, 
perhaps the greatest living recognition of his work is the long list of 
physicians and other researchers, numbering more than 300, who have 
studied and trained under Dr. Good and now hold major positions 
worldwide.
  His words and contributions to active laboratory and clinical 
research and training live on in his more than 40 books and 1,800 
scientific published articles.
  Though he has had an impact on so many lives, I personally will be 
forever in Bob Good's debt for his pioneering work in the field of bone 
marrow transplantation. Thirty years ago he was featured on the cover 
of Time magazine for performing the first bone marrow transplant. 
Today, bone marrow transplants occur daily throughout the world and 
give life to men, women, and children. They are cured of leukemia, 
cancers, immuno-deficiencies, and countless other blood disorders for 
which there is no other cure.
  Through some divine intervention in 1986, Bob Good and I came 
together at All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg with the same 
goal. That goal was to establish a national registry of volunteers 
willing to donate their bone marrow to another person in need of life. 
With his enlightenment on the science of bone marrow transplantation, I 
learned of the need to establish such a registry to give hope to the 
families of patients dying from leukemia or countless other disorders 
because they lacked a matched bone marrow donor. With the support of my 
colleagues in Congress, we established the National Marrow Donor 
Program in 1987 and Bob Good was a member of its first board of 
directors.
  Mr. Speaker, my best wishes go out today to Dr. Good and his wife Dr. 
Noorbibi Day, a world renowned medical researcher in her own right, as 
they are honored this weekend for their individual and collective 
achievements in the fields of science and medical research. Dr. Good is 
a national and international treasure whose work spans generations of 
medical breakthroughs. The people of St. Petersburg are proud that he 
has chosen our area to be his home and I will be forever grateful to 
call him my teacher and friend.

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