[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 137 (Thursday, September 15, 2011)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1651-E1652]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    A TRIBUTE IN HONOR OF STANLEY N. COHEN, M.D. ON THE OCCASION OF 
    RECEIVING THE DEAN'S MEDAL AT THE STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF 
                                MEDICINE

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                           HON. ANNA G. ESHOO

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, September 15, 2011

  Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Stanley N. Cohen, M.D., 
who was awarded the Dean's Medal on Saturday, September 10, 2011, by 
Dean Philip Pizzo of the Stanford University School of Medicine. He 
noted in his comments at the event that it was a particular honor to be 
honored by his colleagues and by Stanford. Dr. Cohen was described in 
the event program as follows:
  Stanley N. Cohen, M.D., is a magna cum laude graduate of Rutgers 
University. He received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania 
School of Medicine in 1960. Following subsequent training at the 
National Institutes of Health, he joined the Stanford faculty in 1968.
  Dr. Cohen is the Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in the School of Medicine, 
Professor and former Chair of Genetics, and Professor of Medicine at 
Stanford. He and his colleague, Herbert W.

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Boyer, Ph.D., of the University of California, San Francisco, 
revolutionized the fields of biology and chemistry by inventing genetic 
engineering. Their discovery of a methodology for propagating DNA, the 
hereditary material of all living things, in foreign hosts has provided 
the cornerstone for virtually all modern biological and medical 
science, and a foundation for the current revolution in the diagnosis 
and treatment of disease.
  Dr. Cohen has received numerous honors, including the National Medal 
of Science, the National Medal of Technology, the Lasker Award for 
Basic Medical Research, the Wolf Prize in Medicine, the Research Award 
of the Helmut Horten Foundation, the Prix de L'Institut de la Vie, the 
Lemelson-MIT Prize, the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and 
Biomedical Research, and the Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine. 
He has been elected to the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He is a 
member of the National Academy of Sciences and a past chair of its 
genetics section, a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National 
Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and 
Sciences. Dr. Cohen has also received ScD honoris causa degrees from 
Rutgers University and the University of Pennsylvania.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in honoring a truly great 
American, one whose life's work has enhanced the lives of others and 
will continue to do so for generations. Together with other brilliant 
scientists, he continues to build on his discoveries. He adds great 
luster to Stanford University and to American science, and I'm 
extraordinarily proud to honor him and his work in the U.S. House of 
Representatives.

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