[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16557]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              CONGRATULATING PAUL MODRICH AND AZIZ SANCAR

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to congratulate scientists Paul 
Modrich of Duke University and Aziz Sancar of the University of North 
Carolina at Chapel Hill on winning the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. 
They share this prestigious award with Swedish scientist Tomas Lindahl 
for their work in understanding how cells repair damaged DNA.
  Dr. Modrich is the James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry at Duke's 
medical school and a member of the Duke Cancer Institute. He is also an 
investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Modrich's 
research has demonstrated how the cell corrects errors that occur when 
DNA is replicated during cell division.
  Dr. Sancar is the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry at 
UNC's medical School. Only the second Turk to win a Nobel Prize, he is 
the cofounder of the Aziz and Gwen Sancar Foundation, a nonprofit 
organization that promotes Turkish culture and supports Turkish 
students in the United States. Dr. Sancar has mapped the mechanism that 
cells use to repair UV damage to DNA.
  Congratulations to Dr. Modrich and Dr. Sancar on their extraordinary 
achievements. We are fortunate they call North Carolina home.

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