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	Peter Agre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peter Agre (born January 30, 1949) is an American biologist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (which he shared with Roderick MacKinnon) for his discovery of aquaporins.
		Agre is an Eagle Scout and recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award.
		Or maybe from the fact his prize-winning research was originally an investigation of the molecular identity of the human blood Rh_factor, and his initial discovery of aquaporins was pure serendipity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Agre (304 words)

	Hopkins' Peter Agre Receives 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
		Peter Agre, M.D., 54, professor of biological chemistry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, today was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
		Agre was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 2000 and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003.
		Peter Agre's speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 2003
	www.hopkinsmedicine.org /press/2003/October/031008A.htm (1019 words)

	2 scientists share Nobel Prize for chemistry
		Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2003 for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes.
		Agre, from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA, is credited with the discovery of water channels and Roderick MacKinnon, from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA, with the structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels.
		Peter Agre (54) was born in Northfield, Minnesota.
	www.rediff.com /news/2003/oct/08nobel.htm (427 words)

	Friends Lecture with Peter Agre
		Peter Agre was born and raised in Northfield, Minnesota.
		Agre's research led to the first known membrane defects in congenital hemolytic anemias (spherocytosis) and produced the first isolation of the Rh blood group antigens.
		Agre was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2000, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003, and the American Philosophical Society in 2004.
	www.library.jhu.edu /friends/events/agre.html (275 words)

	Johns Hopkins Gazette \| October 13, 2003
		Peter Agre is recognized for lab's 1991 discovery of 'water pores' in cells
		Peter Agre, a professor of biological chemistry at the School of Medicine, on Oct. 8 was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in chemistry by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
		Agre, the son of a college professor, told those gathered of a person who learned at a relatively young age how "fun" science could be.
	www.jhu.edu /~gazette/2003/13oct03/13agre.html (1322 words)

	Augsburg College - Augsburg Now
		Last November, Peter Agre '70, M.D., was presented the 1999 Homer W. Smith Award, which is given annually by the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) and the American Heart Association to a medical researcher judged to have made a major advance in understanding kidney disease.
		In 1991, Agre, who is a professor in the biological chemistry department and director of the graduate program in cellular and molecular medicine at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, made the discovery of aquaporin-1, the first molecular membrane water channel.
		Agre received a B.A. in chemistry from Augsburg in 1970 (a choice perhaps influenced by his father, the late Courtland Agre, who taught chemistry at Augsburg from the 1950s to the '70s).
	www.augsburg.edu /now/archives/spring00/agre.html (470 words)

	Peter Agre Receives 2005 Priestley Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		An odd bend in the road of research changed biomedical investigator Peter Agre's career in 1991 and has reshaped the understanding of biological events that range from filtering by kidneys to the plumbing of tree roots and the virulence of bacterial disease.
		Dr. Agre will discuss aquaporins and the flood of research that has revealed their function in humans, bacterial cells, and plants, in his Priestley award acceptance address, "Aquaporin Water Channels: from Atomic Structure to Clinical Medicine," to be given Monday, November 14, at 7:30 PM in the Anita Tuvin Schlecter Auditorium (ATS) at Dickinson.
		Agre got an early start in liberal-arts science by spending time in the laboratory of his father, a chemistry professor at St Olaf College in Minnesota.
	www.dickinson.edu /biology/DickinsonAgre.html (650 words)

	PETER AGRE
		Peter Agre, M.D., 54, professor of biological chemistry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
		Agre (pronounced AHG-ray) shared the prize with Roderick MacKinnon, a Rockefeller University scientist who determined the spatial structure of cell membrane channels that control passage of salts.
		In Agre's lab alone, aquaporins have been discovered to be part of the blood-brain barrier and also associated with critical water transport in skeletal muscle, lung and kidney.
	chem.eshire.net (788 words)

	ARVO Minisymposia
		Son of a St. Olaf College professor, Peter Agre was raised in a small Minnesota farming community made festive by annual visits of the King of Norway.
		During their summers, Agre and his brothers worked on their cousin's dairy farm, and in winter they shoveled a lot of snow and toured the countryside on cross-country skis.
		Among his awards, Agre was the inaugural Carl Gottschalk Lecturer for the American Physiological Society (1994), a Karolinska Research Lecturer at the Nobel Forum (1997), a national finalist for the ASCI Award (1998), and recipient of the 1999 Homer Smith Award from the American Society of Nephrology.
	old.arvo.org /Meetings/Agre.asp (564 words)

	Waterway to Stockholm
		And it was that discovery that brought Peter Agre at the age of 54 the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
		At first, Agre had thought it might actually be the substance he’d been studying—the antigen that made the blood in some women attack their unborn child.
		Agre came upon the protein not only on the membranes of red blood cells but in kidney cells and blood vessels, and related proteins in tear ducts, salivary glands, even plant cells.
	www.hopkinshospital.org /Featured_Professional/agre.html (1899 words)

	MPR: Minnesota native wins Nobel Prize for chemistry
		Agre, 54, was raised in Northfield and Minneapolis.
		Agre, 54, of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, discovered in 1988 the "channels" that let water pass in and out of cells, the Royal Swedish Academy said.
		Peter was a senior at Roosevelt High School at the time, and his mother remembers he was bored with classes.
	news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/2003/10/08_olsond_nobelwinner (936 words)

	Online NewsHour: Nobel Prize Winners -- October 8, 2003
		Peter Agre, 54, was honored for discovering the channels, called aquaporins, that let water pass in and out of cells.
		Agre is a professor of biological chemistry and medicine at Johns Hopkins University.
		PETER AGRE: Well I was sleeping at 5:30 this morning, the telephone rang, and it was a very light voice with a Swedish accent.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/science/july-dec03/nobel_10-08.html (904 words)

	Nobel Laureate Peter C. Agre to Join Duke University Medical Center in New Leadership Role - Dukehealth.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Agre's appointment was announced by Victor J. au, M.D., chancellor for health affairs at Duke and president and CEO of the Duke University Health System.
		In his role as vice chancellor for science and technology, Agre will work closely with the chancellor for health affairs, the deans of the medical and nursing schools, and with the faculty to develop strategies for the future direction of science as well as the opportunities that will be enabled by rapidly evolving technologies.
		Agre's dual role – as an architect who will help to shape Duke's medical research enterprise, and as public figure who will serve as the institution's spokesperson on key scientific issues – will be unique among academic medical centers in the United States, said Dzau.
	www.dukehealth.org /news/8389?from=RSS (962 words)

	Johns Hopkins Magazine
		Agre, the Johns Hopkins professor of biological chemistry who won the Nobel for his discovery of the proteins that form the channels that transport water through cell membranes, credits his father, a college chemistry professor, with sparking his interest in science.
		Agre tells the story of how Pauling, who was invited to a reception for American Nobel winners by President John F. Kennedy in 1962, used the invitation as an opportunity to take part in a demonstration outside the White House to protest U.S. atmospheric nuclear tests.
		Agre's greatest strength as a mentor is that he is interested in the lives of his junior colleagues both inside and outside the lab, now and later, says Landon King.
	www.jhu.edu /~jhumag/0404web/chem.html (3800 words)

	Event Details - The International Peace Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Peter Agre obtained his B.A. in chemistry from Augsburg College, Minneapolis, in 1970 and his M.D. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1974.
		Agre was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the studies he began in the late 1980s concerning channels in cell membranes.
		Agre suceeded in isolating a membrane protein that he realised must be the long-sought-after water channel out of and into cells.
	peace-foundation.net.7host.com /event_details.asp?eid=Events_JvQD (313 words)

	Peter Agre, honorary doctors 2005 - The University of Oslo
		Peter Agre was born in Northfield, Minnesota, in 1949.
		In 2003, Peter Agre was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
		Since 1995, Peter Agre has worked closely with scientists at the University of Oslo to elucidate the roles of aquaporins in brain disease.
	www.uio.no /english/about_uio/honorary-doctors/2005/agre.html (203 words)

	Www.mediabharti.com
		Agre (54) is part of the staff at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, and Prof.
		Agre was cited for his work in 1988 for isolating a membrane protein that, a year or so later, he realized must be the long sought after water channel.
		Peter Agre also knew that mercury ions prevent cells from taking up and releasing water, and he showed that water transport through his new protein was prevented in the same way by mercury.
	mediabharti7.blogspot.com (3861 words)

	MPR: Nobel winner says Bush is politicizing science
		Minnesota native Peter Agre spoke to students and faculty at St. Olaf College on Thursday and the University of Minnesota on Friday.
		Agre says he's concerned that the Bush administration is ignoring evidence that increased carbon emissions are causing global climate change.
		Agre says he's concerned that the president is politicizing science by only appointing scientists who agree with his policies.
	news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/2004/10/01_scheckt_science (749 words)

	Nobelist to address issue of science and election politics (Sep 22, 2004)
		On Wednesday, September 29, 2004, Dr. Peter Agre, professor of biological chemistry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine will lecture on "Science Policy and the 2004 Election." Dr. Agre was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2003 for his discovery of the channels that regulate the flow of water across cell membranes.
		Agre will be speaking on behalf of “Scientists and Engineers for Change.” The mission of this organization is to ensure that issues affected by science and technology are fully explored in the 2004 presidential election.
		Agre was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2003 for his discovery of the channels that regulate the flow of water across cell membranes.
	www.news.wisc.edu /10175.html (252 words)

	Johns Hopkins Gazette \| March 15, 2004
		Agre was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his laboratory's 1991 discovery of the long-sought "channels" that regulate and facilitate water molecule transport through cell membranes, a process essential to all living organisms.
		Agre and his wife, Mary, were first given a brief tour of the Miller Senate Office Building and an informal opportunity to meet the senators.
		When the resolution was read, Agre received a standing ovation, and then he thanked the delegates for the state's strong support of research and education.
	www.jhu.edu /~gazette/2004/15mar04/15nobel.html (356 words)

	A Voice to Promote Science Education
		Agre won the prize for his discovery of proteins called aquaporins that regulate water balance in cells.
		Agre: There are several issues I’d be very interested in pursuing as a private citizen that would not be, I think, fair game for me as a vice chancellor for health sciences.
		Agre: Although I haven’t lost interest in science, I don’t feel it will be feasible given the expectations, to try to maintain a big research lab that is really cutting edge in many areas.
	www.dukenews.duke.edu /2005/03/agredialogue_0305_print.htm (1202 words)

	© The American Physiological Society - APS Member Wins 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
		Agre shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Roderick MacKinnon, M.D. for his work on structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels.
		In 1988, Peter Agre succeeded in isolating a membrane protein that, a year or so later, he realized must be the long-sought-after water channel.
		Agre has been an active participant in the Society’s meetings since his selection as the inaugural Carl W. Gottschalk Distinguished Lecturer of the APS Renal Section in 1994.
	www.the-aps.org /press/aps/agre.htm (363 words)

	Spotlight: Chemical channels
		Peter Agre (54) of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland and Roderick MacKinnon (47) of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Rockefeller University, New York share the 10 million Swedish Kroner (about £790,000) prize money for their independent work on cell channels.
		Somehow, water molecules must be able to pass in and out through the cell wall, but if this were a purely passive process, osmotic pressure would either lead to the cell bursting or the cell dehydrating depending on the concentration of salts on either side of the cell membrane.
		Agre had at that time studied numerous membrane proteins from red blood cells and found one of those present in kidney cells.
	www.psigate.ac.uk /spotlight/issue13b/chemistry.html (814 words)

	Augsburg College - Augsburg Now
		Peter Agre, a 1970 graduate and Distinguished Alumnus of Augsburg, was one of two winners of the 2003 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
		After graduating from Augsburg, Agre received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and is now professor of biological chemistry there.
		Agre's father, the late Courtland Agre, was chemistry professor at Augsburg from 1959-76.
	www.augsburg.edu /now/archives/fall03/quad.html (585 words)

	C&EN: AHA! MOMENTS - PETER C. AGRE
		PETER C. Nobel Laureate recognized protein "contaminant" as a water channel
		eter C. Agre, a professor of medicine and biological chemistry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering a class of membrane-spanning proteins that transport water across cell membranes.
		That changed in 1988, when Agre stumbled upon the first aquaporin while trying to purify another protein from red blood cells.
	pubs.acs.org /cen/aha!/8144agre.html (444 words)

	Department of Biological Chemistry - Johns Hopkins University
		Collaborative efforts with laboratories in Denmark and Switzerland are yielding the details of tissue and developmental expression of aquaporins as well as the high resolution structure of several mammalian and microbial aquaporins.
		Tsubota K, Hirai SI, King LS, Agre, P., and Ishida N. (2001) Defective cellular trafficking of lacrimal gland aquaporin-5 in Sjögren's syndrome.
		Carbrey JM, Bonhivers M, Boeke JD, and Agre, P., (2001) Aquaporins in Saccharomyces: Characterization of a second functional water channel protein.
	biolchem.bs.jhmi.edu /members/agre.htm (396 words)

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