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Peter Agre
Peter Courtland 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 membra…
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science · American physician and academic (born 1949) · chemist · molecular biologist · university teacher · physician · microbiologist · researcher · also Peter Agre, Peter Courtland Agre, Peter C. Agre, Agre
Born 30 January 1949 · Q102250
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2016· 2 entries
Won George M. Kober Medal (2016).
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Agre was unable to attend due to a hospitalization
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2015· 1 entry
Agre signed the Mainau Declaration 2015 on Climate Change on the final day of the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
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2012· 2 entries
Diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2012, Agre has had to reduce his activities.
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Agre has had to reduce his activities
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2010· 2 entries
Allowed expansion of the JHMRI program in Africa
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PUST is the only campus where westerners can mingle with students in DPRK
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2009· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate from University of Bordeaux-II (2009).
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Led to a liberalized interpretation of restrictions by the U
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Agre was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and became active in science diplomacy
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2008· 2 entries
Returned to Johns Hopkins, where he directs the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute (JHMRI) in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and holds a joint appointment in the Johns Hopkins School of Medi
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Agre became Director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute (JHMRI) at the Bloomberg School of Public Health
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2006· 1 entry
“I’m a realist. I’m a scientist. If this is an impossible task, we won’t perseverate,”
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2005· 2 entries
Awarded Karl Landsteiner Memorial Award (2005).
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Awarded Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2005).
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2004· 1 entry
Agre received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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2003· 5 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for the discovery of water channels.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2003).
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Agre and Roderick MacKinnon shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes
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With Macha Research Trust, a faith-based research program led by Dr
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And distribution of insecticide treated bed nets in 2007, the burden of malaria in small children has declined in Macha by 96%
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2001· 1 entry
By a gift from Michael Bloomberg and the Bloomberg Philanthropies, JHMRI includes 20 faculty members whose lab efforts include development of mosquitoes resistant to malaria transmission, design of novel malaria vaccines
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2000· 1 entry
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003, the American Philosophical Society in 2004, the National Academy of Medicine in 2005, and the American Society for Microbiology in 2011
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1992· 1 entry
And remained at Johns Hopkins until 2005
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1984· 2 entries
Agre was recruited to the faculty of the Department of Medicine led by Victor A
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Agre joined the Department of Medicine, where he built his own research program and first isolated the 32 kilodalton core subunit of the Rhesus blood group antigen, RhD
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1981· 1 entry
Agre returned to the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to join the lab of Vann Bennett in the Department of Cell Biology
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1975· 1 entry
Agre and his wife, Mary, have been married since 1975.
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1974· 1 entry
From the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland
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1949· 1 entry
Born 1949-01-30.
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