Peter Agre, Chair Emeritus

Peter Agre is director of the Malaria Research Institute at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and James B. Duke professor of cell biology at Duke University Medical Center. Formerly, he served as vice chancellor for science and technology at Duke University Medical Center. He is chair emeritus of the Committee on Human Rights of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine. In 2003 Dr. Agre and Roderick MacKinnon were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes.”