Peter Agre
Peter Agre is a Nobel Laureate American physician, molecular biologist, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute. In 2003, Agre and Roderick MacKinnon shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes." Agre was recognized for his discovery of aquaporin water channels. Aquaporins are water-channel proteins that move water molecules through the cell membrane.
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- Born in
- Northfield
- Educated at
- Johns Hopkins UniversityAugsburg UniversityJohns Hopkins School of MedicineRoosevelt High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Nobel Prize in Chemistry🏆 Karl Landsteiner Memorial Award🏆 Distinguished Eagle Scout Award🏆 honorary doctorate of the National University of San Marcos🏆 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Chulso Moon
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1949
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