Dr.
Peter Courtland Agre
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Biological chemist; Educator
Area
Biological Sciences
Specialty
Medical Sciences
Elected
2003
Professor of Biological Chemistry and Medicine. Discovered the prototype of a family of proteins called aquaporins, which function as water channels in the membranes of animal and plant cells. Led efforts to find new family members and to elucidate the structure, distribution, physiology, and pathophysiology of the aquaporins. Recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2003.
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