A native Minnesotan, Peter Agre studied chemistry at Augsburg College (B.A. 1970) and medicine at Johns Hopkins (M.D. 1974). Agre joined the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine faculty in 1984 and rose to the rank of Professor of Biological Chemistry and Professor of Medicine. Agre January is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor and Director of the Malaria Research Institute at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

In 2003, Agre shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering aquaporins, a family of water channel proteins found throughout nature and is responsible for numerous physiological processes in humans and is implicated in multiple clinical disorders.  Agre is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine for which he chaired the Committee on Human Rights.  From 2009-2011, Agre served as President and chair of the Board of Advisors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Session: Inspiring the Next Generation: A Conversation with Nobel Laureates

Date:  26 March 2018

Time: 17:00-18:00