RARE! “Nobel Prize Card” Hand Signed By Peter Agre Todd Mueller COA

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RARE! “Nobel Prize Card” Hand Signed By Peter Agre.  This item is authenticated By Todd Mueller Autographs and comes with their certificate of authenticity.
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Peter Agre
/ˈɑːɡriː/
(born January 30, 1949) is an
American
physician,
Nobel Laureate
, and 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
.
Agre is the second of six children born in
Northfield, Minnesota
to parents of
Norwegian
and
Swedish
descent. Agre is a
Lutheran
. Fascinated by international travel after a high school camping trip through the Soviet Union, Agre was an inconsistent student until he developed an interest in science from his father who was a college chemistry professor.
Agre graduated from
Roosevelt High School (Minnesota)
before he received his B.A. in
Chemistry
from
Augsburg University
in
Minneapolis
and his
M.D.
in 1974 from the
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
in
Baltimore
,
Maryland
. From 1975 to 1978 he completed his clinical training in Internal Medicine at
Case Western Reserve University
's
Case Medical Center
under Charles C.J. Carpenter. He subsequently did a Hematology-Oncology fellowship at North Carolina Memorial Hospital of
UNC Chapel Hill
. In 1981, 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
. He subsequently joined the Department of Biological Chemistry led by Dan Lane. Agre rose to full professor in 1992 and remained at Johns Hopkins until 2005. 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. In 2008, he 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 Medicine
.