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Jan 30, 1949 Northfield, Minnesota, United States 75 years old
American chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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About Peter Agre
- Peter Agre (born January 30, 1949) is an American physician, Nobel Laureate, and 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.
- In 2009, Agre was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and became active in science diplomacy.
