TY - JOUR
T1 - Aquaporin water channels
T2 - from atomic structure to clinical medicine
AU - Agre, Peter
N1 - Funding Information:
Minnesota native Peter Agre studied chemistry at Augsburg College (B.A. 1970) and medicine at Johns Hopkins (M.D. 1974). He completed his residency at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, a Hem-Onc Fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a postdoctoral fellowship in cell biology at Johns Hopkins. A Johns Hopkins faculty member since 1984, Agre was Professor of Biological Chemistry and Professor of Medicine when, in 2005, he moved to the Duke University School of Medicine to become Vice Chancellor for Science and Technology, Professor of Cell Biology and Professor of Medicine. In 2003, Agre shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering aquaporins, a family of water channel proteins found throughout nature, responsible for numerous physiological processes in humans and implicated in multiple clinical disorders. Among his awards, Agre received the 1999 Homer Smith Award from the American Society of Nephrology and the 2005 Karl Landsteiner Award from the American Association of Blood Banks. Agre was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2000 and the Institute of Medicine in 2005. He was also elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003 and the American Philosophical Society in 2004.
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PY - 2006/12
Y1 - 2006/12
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U2 - 10.1016/j.nano.2006.11.004
DO - 10.1016/j.nano.2006.11.004
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33845305029
SN - 1549-9634
VL - 2
SP - 266
EP - 267
JO - Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine
JF - Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine
IS - 4
ER -