[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 28 (Wednesday, February 27, 2013)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E205]
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  RECOGNIZING DR. RON DAVIS FOR BEING AWARDED THE PRESTIGIOUS JAVITS 
                    NEUROSCIENCE INVESTIGATOR AWARD

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                          HON. PATRICK MURPHY

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, February 27, 2013

  Mr. MURPHY of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize and 
honor Dr. Ron Davis, who as chair of the Neuroscience Department of the 
Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) has made 
exceptional contributions to the field of neuroscience and the 
treatment of neurological diseases. For his work on the complex biology 
of memory formation and the disorders that disrupt it, Dr. Davis has 
recently been awarded the prestigious $3.5 million Jacob K. Javits 
Neuroscience Investigator Award.
  This award was first mandated by an act of Congress in 1983. The 
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), an 
agency within the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awards this 
special merit grant to persons with a history of outstanding talent, 
imagination and distinguished scientific achievement within the field 
of neurological science. This is the second grant Dr. Davis has 
received from NINDS, showing his dedication to neuroscience research 
for over 30 years. Currently, Dr. Davis is an affiliate professor at 
the Department of Biological Sciences of Florida Atlantic University in 
Boca Raton, Florida. He received his Ph.D. from the University of 
California, Davis in 1979.
  I am extremely proud of the research conducted by Dr. Davis and 
Scripps Florida, which Florida's 18th district is proud to be home to. 
TSRI is one of the world's largest independent, not-for-profit 
organizations focusing on research in the biomedical sciences. Over the 
past decades, TSRI has developed a lengthy track record of major 
contributions to science and health, including laying the foundation 
for new treatments for cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, hemophilia, and 
other diseases. This new study by Dr. Davis will focus on an area of 
memory formation that has remained relatively enigmatic--the role that 
active forgetting plays in learning and memory. I look forward to the 
advancements gained through this new research in the next four years 
and beyond.
  Mr. Speaker, the work of Dr. Davis is truly admirable and I am 
honored to recognize his accomplishments here today. I thank him for 
his lifetime of contributions to the field of neuroscience and offer my 
support of his continued research in the field.

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