피터 아그레

소개

피터 아그리(영어: Peter Agre,, 1949년 1월 30일 ~ )는 미국의 의학자, 분자생물학자이다. 2003년에 아쿠아포린을 발견한 공로로 로더릭 매키넌과 함께 노벨 화학상을 수상했다.

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. In 2009, Agre was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and became active in science diplomacy.