HONORING THE 2025 FELLOWS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF INVENTORS

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HONORING THE 2025 FELLOWS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF INVENTORS

Congressional Record, Volume 172 Issue 29 (Wednesday, February 11, 2026) [Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 29 (Wednesday, February 11, 2026)] [Extensions of Remarks] [Pages E127-E128] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] HONORING THE 2025 FELLOWS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF INVENTORS ______ HON. KATHY CASTOR of florida in the house of representatives Wednesday, February 11, 2026 Ms. CASTOR of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the 169 inventors who will be inducted as the 2025 Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). An induction ceremony will take place on June 4, 2026, in Los Angeles, California to celebrate these distinguished inventors and their incredible accomplishments. The ceremony will be presided over by Dr. Paul R. Sanberg, FNAI. To be named as a Fellow, these individuals were nominated by their peers and underwent a review process by the NAI Selection Committee, which ultimately deemed their innovations as making a significant impact on the quality of life, economic development and the welfare of their communities, the residents of Florida and the United States. The NAI Fellow program has 2,253 Fellows worldwide representing more than 300 prestigious universities and governmental and non-profit research institutes. Collectively, the Fellows hold more than 86,000 issued U.S. patents, which have generated over 20,000 licensed technologies and 4,000 companies, and created more than 1.4 million jobs. In addition, over $3.8 trillion in revenue has been generated based on NAI Fellow discoveries. Among NAI fellows, there are more than 170 presidents and senior leaders of research universities and nonprofit research institutes, over 796 members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, about 60 inductees of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 76 recipients of the U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation and U.S. National Medal of Science, and 59 Nobel Laureates, among other awards and distinctions. Founded by Dr. Paul R. Sanberg at the University of South Florida in 2010, the NAI's mission is to recognize and encourage inventors with patents issued from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, enhance the visibility of academic technology and innovation, encourage the disclosure of intellectual property, educate, and mentor innovative students and translate the inventions of its members to benefit Florida and communities all throughout the United States. Mr. Speaker, on behalf of my neighbors in Tampa Bay and the citizens of Florida, I am proud to honor the 2025 Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors for this outstanding achievement. We must commend these inventors for their invaluable contributions to society, which continually propel us forward. May their example inspire future generations to pursue their own paths of discovery and innovation, ensuring a bright and innovative future for us all. I include in the Record the following list of the names of the 2025 NAI Fellows Class: Reza Abdolvand, University of Central Florida; Gregory Abowd, Northeastern University; Anant Agarwal, The Ohio State University; Ali AL-Marzouqi, United Arab Emirates University; Mansoor Amiji, Northeastern University; Ana Claudia Arias, University of California, Berkeley; Aravind Asokan, Duke University; Gregory Auner, Wayne State University; Jennifer Avari Silva, Washington University in St. Louis; Ahmad Bahai, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Hua ``Kevin'' Bai, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville; David Baker, University of Washington; Sathy Balu-iyer, University at Buffalo, The State University [[Page E128]] of New York; Dafna Bari Sagi, NYU Langone Health; Matthew Barth, University of California, Riverside; Haim Bau, University of Pennsylvania; Magdy Bayoumi, University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Zdenek Bazant, Northwestern University; Rohit Bhargava, University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign; Suresh Bhargava, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology; Stephan Biller, Purdue University; Christian Brechot, University of South Florida; Igal Brener, Sandia National Laboratories; Robert Brown, Case Western Reserve University; J. Quincy Brown, Tulane University; Louis Brus, Columbia University; Carol Carter, Stony Brook University; Chan-Byoung Chae, Yonsei University; Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Arizona State University; Joseph Chang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Goutam Chattopadhyay, California Institute of Technology & NASA Jet Propulsion Lab; Eugene Chen, Colorado State University; Ji-Xin Cheng, Boston University; Gari Clifford, Emory University; Gloria Coruzzi, New York University; Sheng Dai, Oak Ridge National Laboratory & University of Tennessee, Knoxville; James Dalton, Louisiana State University; Kapil Dandekar, Drexel University; Sylvia Daunert, University of Miami; David Deamer, University of California, Santa Cruz; Andr6 DeHon, University of Pennsylvania; Zhiqun (Daniel) Deng, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Tomas Diaz de la Rubia, The University of Arizona; Deepakraj Divan, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ravi Droopad, Texas State University; Tal Dvir, Tel Aviv University; Maher ElKady, University of California, Los Angeles; Omolola Eniola-Adefeso, University of Illinois at Chicago; Hongyou Fan, Sandia National Laboratories; Shanhui Fan, Stanford University; Omar Farha, Northwestern University; Benny Freeman, The University of Texas at Austin; Tahir Ghani, University of California, Berkeley; Swaroop Ghosh, The Pennsylvania State University; Barney Graham, Morehouse School of Medicine; Rasim Guldiken, Oklahoma State University; Jay Guo, University of Michigan; Satyandra Gupta, University of Southern California; Vineet Gupta, University of Texas Medical Branch; Hossam Haick, Technion--Israel Institute of Technology; Eva Harth, University of Houston; David Haussler, University of California, Santa Cruz; Donald Haynie, Centers for DiseaseControl; Abdelsalam Sumi Helal, University of Florida; Yehia Ibrahim, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Erick Iezzi, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory; Ehsan Jabbarzadeh, University of South Carolina; Yali Jia, OregonHealth & Science University; Eugene John, University of Texas at San Antonio; Darren Johnson, University of Oregon; Emil Jovanov, The University of Alabama in Huntsville; Tibor Juhasz, University of California, Irvine; Raghu Kalluri, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Dilhan M. Kalyon, Stevens Institute of Technology; Raghuraman Kannan, University of Missouri- Columbia; Mark Kelley, Indiana University; John Kellum, University of Pittsburgh; Michael Koeris, U.S. Department of War--Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; Elisa Konofagou, Columbia University; Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown, Arizona State University; Florian Krammer, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Yue Kuo, Texas A&M University & National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University; Jih-Sheng ``Jason'' Lai, Virginia Tech; Carlito Lebrilla, University of California, Davis; Jean-Pierre Leburton, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Jason Lewis, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Guoqiang Li, Louisiana State University; Jenshan Lin, National Science Foundation; Lih- Yuan Lin, University of Washington; Stuart Lipton, The Scripps Research Institute; Bin Liu, National University of Singapore; Jun O. Liu, Johns Hopkins University; Ping Liu, University of California, San Diego; Yan-Fei Liu, Queen's University; Leslie M. Loew, University of Connecticut; Boon Thau Loo, University of Pennsylvania; Dusan Losic, Adelaide University; Jian Lu, City University of Hong Kong; Na (Luna) Lu, Purdue University; Daniel Ludois, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Alan Luo, The Ohio State University; Barbara Lyons, Lawrence Technological University; Chris Malachowsky, NVIDIA & University of Florida; Heidi M. Mansour, Florida International University; H. Alan Mantooth, University of Arkansas; David Martin, University of Delaware; Prasant Mohapatra, University of South Florida; Yaakov Nahmias, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Arokia Nathan, University of Cambridge; Maiken Nedergaud, University of Rochester; Daniel Nelson, University of Maryland, College Park; Henry Nguyen, University of Missouri-Columbia; David Nolte, Purdue University; John O' Shea, National Institutes of Health; Subba Reddy Palli, University of Kentucky; Bernhard Palsson, University of California, San Diego; Dipanjan Pan, The Pennsylvania State University; Marios- Christos Papaefthymiou, University of California, Irvine; Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, University of Minnesota; Chandrakant D. Patel, Hewlett-Packard & University of South Florida; Stacey Patterson, Florida State University; Sanjoy Paul, Rice University; Dehua Pei, The Ohio State University; Danyll J. Pines, University of Maryland, College Park; Kevin W. Plaxco, University of California, Santa Barbara; Marc Porter, The University of Utah; George Prendergast, Lankenau Institute for Medical Research; Shashank Priya, University of Minnesota; Eric Prossnitz, The University of New Mexico; Alfredo QuinonesHinojosa, Mayo Clinic; Sdnivasa Raghavan, University of Maryland, College Park; Barry Rand, Princeton University; Arijit Raychowdhury, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jochen Reiser, University of Texas Medical Branch; Shunlin Ren, Virginia Commonwealth University; C. Patrick Reynolds, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center; R. Michael Roe, North Carolina State University; Steven Rosenberg, National Institutes of Health; Todd Rosengwt, Baylor College of Medicine; Joe Ruscito, Medical University of South Carolina; John Ruter, University of Georgia; Alan Saltiel, University of California, San Diego; Paul Santene, University of Toronto; Marios Savvides, Carnegie Mellon University; Patrick Schnable, Iowa State University; Mark Schoenfisch, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; John Schroeder, Texas Tech University; Mathias Schubert, University