[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 2]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 1575-1576]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 RECOGNIZING CARLY CRUMP FOR HER RESEARCH ON THE DENGUE VIRUS AND FOR 
                       ATTENDING NOBEL PRIZE WEEK

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                          HON. ANDER CRENSHAW

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, February 9, 2016

  Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Ms. Carly Crump on 
her outstanding research work on the transmission of the dengue virus 
and on her invitation to attend Nobel Prize Week in Stockholm, Sweden. 
As the U.S. Congressman of Jacksonville, Florida and the co-chair of 
the Caucus on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases it is an honor to 
recognize Carly for her exceptional accomplishments.
  Carly, a graduate of Episcopal School of Jacksonville, Florida, first 
began her work in her parents' garage breeding mosquitos. Eventually, 
Carly's work evolved from offering blood meals to these mosquitos to 
studying the proteins involved in the transmission of the dengue virus, 
related to the viruses that cause West Nile infection and yellow fever, 
that can lead to the dengue fever. In her most recent research at Johns 
Hopkins University, Carly

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helped identify 11 proteins that may be involved in the transmission of 
dengue virus 2 and could set the basis for vaccine development.
  As a result of her prestigious work, Carly was invited to attend 
Nobel Prize Week in Stockholm, one of only 26 young people from 19 
countries invited to attend. There, Carly gave a presentation to 1,000 
students on her work and interacted with another 2,000 students who 
stopped at her booth to discuss her project.
  Carly has also been recognized as one of the nation's top 16 young 
STEM researchers by US News and World Report and has won first place at 
the International Science and Engineering Fair, the Florida Science 
Fair, and the Junior Science and Humanities Symposium.
  Currently, Carly is studying microbiology at the University of 
Florida and hopes to be a surgeon like her father and her grandfather 
and to continue her research.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask you and Members of Congress to join me in 
congratulating Carly Crump on the success of her research and on 
attending Nobel Prize Week in Stockholm. Her research and the research 
of many other rising talents will lead the world to develop cures for 
this and other devastating diseases that cripple both Americans and our 
foreign partners alike.

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