[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 9]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 12147]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     FL INVENTOR HALL OF FAME 2016

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                         HON. GUS M. BILIRAKIS

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, September 8, 2016

  Mr. BILIRAKIS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the seven inventors 
who have been recognized as the 2016 Inductees of the Florida Inventors 
Hall of Fame. These inventors were nominated by their peers and have 
undergone the scrutiny of the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame Selection 
Committee, having had their innovations deemed as making a significant 
impact for the citizens of Florida and the United States on quality of 
life, economic development, and welfare of society.
  The Florida Inventors Hall of Fame was founded in 2013 by Paul R. 
Sanberg, Senior Vice President for Research, Innovation and Economic 
Development, and Judy Genshaft, President, at the University of South 
Florida. It was recognized by the Florida Senate with Senate Resolution 
1756 and adopted on April 30, 2014. Its mission is to encourage 
individuals of all ages and backgrounds to strive toward the betterment 
of Florida and society through continuous, groundbreaking innovation by 
commending the incredible scientific work that has been or is being 
accomplished in Florida and by its citizens.
  Nominations to the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame are open to all 
Florida inventors who are or who were residents of Florida and whose 
connection to the state has informed their inventive work. The nominee 
must be a named inventor on a patent issued by the United States Patent 
and Trademark Office. The impact of the inventor and his or her 
invention should be significant to society as a whole, and the 
invention should have been commercialized, utilized, or led to 
important innovations.
  The 2016 Inductees of the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame are: William 
Dalton, Tampa physician, founder and CEO of M2Gen at Moffitt Cancer 
Center, for his revolutionary developments in personalized cancer 
treatment; Yogi Goswami, Distinguished Professor at the University of 
South Florida in Tampa, for his pioneering contributions and technology 
development in solar energy and indoor air quality; Alan Marshall, 
professor and chief scientist at Florida State University in 
Tallahassee, who invented the Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance 
(FT-ICR) mass spectrometry, used to analyze complex structures; 
Nicholas Muzyczka, microbiologist at University of Florida in 
Gainesville, whose ground breaking research in adeno-associated virus 
has led to numerous breakthroughs in gene therapy; Jacqueline Quinn, 
environmental engineer at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, who 
invented multiple, globally-impacting environmental cleanup 
technologies, including NASA's most licensed and recognized technology 
for groundwater remediation, Emulsified Zero Valent Iron (EZVI); Andrew 
Schally, Nobel Laureate, Distinguished Professor at University of Miami 
School of Medicine, and Distinguished Medical Research Scientist and 
Chief of the Endocrine, Polypeptide and Cancer Institute at the Miami 
Veterans Affairs Medical Center, for his discovery of hypothalamic 
hormones and subsequent applications of their analogues to treatment of 
cancer and other diseases; and MJ Soileau, professor at the University 
of Central Florida in Orlando, for his innovative research in the 
advancement of high energy laser optics used by the Department of 
Defense and leading the development of UCF's internationally recognized 
Center for Research & Education in Optics & Lasers (CREOL).
  These contributions made to society through innovation and invention 
are significant and life changing. I commend these individuals for the 
work they have done to benefit the world. In contemplating the work of 
these inventors, future generations can strive to emulate these 
honorees and their dedication to innovation.

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