[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 133 (Thursday, November 18, 2004)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2061]
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                        HONORING DR. IRWIN ROSE

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                         HON. JOSEPH M. HOEFFEL

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, November 18, 2004

  Mr. HOEFFEL. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Dr. Irwin Rose, who 
shares the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with his colleagues Dr. Avram 
Hershko and Dr. Aaron Ciechanover of Israel. Dr. Rose is a former 
resident of Abington, PA and had a distinguished career conducting 
research at the Fox Chase Cancer Center and elsewhere.
  Dr. Rose was raised in Spokane, WA. He studied at Washington State 
College, served as a radio technician near the end of World War II, and 
then earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry at the University of Chicago. He 
served for 9 years on the faculty of Yale Medical School. He then 
worked at the Fox Chase Cancer Center from 1963 to 1995. His wife of 49 
years, Zelda Budenstein Rose, is also a biochemist. They have a 
daughter and three sons.
  The research for which Dr. Rose is being awarded the Nobel Prize 
deals with a certain regulatory protein that is present everywhere in 
plant and animal cells. The significance of this protein lies in its 
functions as a destroyer of proteins that are no longer needed and a 
regulator of certain proteins used in cell reproduction. Because 
several diseases that are yet uncured, such as cancer and cystic 
fibrosis, result from errors in the cell reproductive process, Dr. 
Rose's research provides us with new hope in the search for cures.
  It is my pleasure to recognize Dr. Irwin Rose for his contributions 
to the field of biochemistry. I congratulate him on being awarded the 
Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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