1. Peter Agre is 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 2009, Peter Agre was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and became active in science diplomacy.
Peter Agre is the second of six children born in Northfield, Minnesota, to parents of Norwegian and Swedish descent.
Peter Agre subsequently did a Hematology-Oncology fellowship at North Carolina Memorial Hospital of UNC Chapel Hill.
In 1981, Peter Agre returned to the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to join the lab of Vann Bennett in the Department of Cell Biology.
In 1984, Agre was recruited onto the faculty of the Department of Medicine led by Victor A McKusick.
Peter Agre subsequently joined the Department of Biological Chemistry led by Dan Lane.
Peter Agre rose to full professor in 1992 and remained at Johns Hopkins until 2005.
Peter Agre then served as the Vice Chancellor for Science and Technology at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, where he guided the development of Duke's biomedical research.
Peter Agre has received 19 honorary doctorates from universities around the world, including Japan, Norway, Greece, Mexico, Hungary, and the United States.
In 2004, Peter Agre received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.
Peter Agre is an Eagle Scout and recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award.
Peter Agre enjoys wilderness canoeing in the arctic and cross-country skiing, having completed the 60 mile Vasaloppet ski race in Sweden five times.
Peter Agre is known among science students for his humanity and humility.
Peter Agre appeared on The Colbert Report, discussing his role as a founding member of Scientists and Engineers for America, sound science in politics, and the decline of American knowledge of science, among other topics.
In 1984, Peter 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.
In 2008, Peter Agre became Director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Two years later, Peter Agre led an extensive series of visits to the Cuban Academy of Sciences and leading Cuban scientific institutions including the institutes for biotechnology, pharmaceutical and vaccine development, a teaching hospital and ELAM Cuba.
Peter Agre provided keynote plenary lectures to the first International Science Symposium at PUST in 2011 and the third symposium in 2015.
Salehi, a PhD graduate of MIT and former head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, arranged for lectures in multiple universities in Tehran where Peter Agre was appointed visiting professor at the Sharif University of Technology and a private meeting was held with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Peter Agre emphasized health care and environmental issues rather than the Iraq war.
Peter Agre has said that he admired Linus Pauling, another Nobel laureate and peace activist.
Peter Agre served on the transition team for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, helping forge science policy and answers to scientific policy questions posed by Science Debate 2008.
In 2015, Peter Agre signed the Mainau Declaration 2015 on Climate Change on the final day of the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.