Background
Agre, Peter Courtland was born on January 30, 1949 in Northfield, Minnesota, United States.
Agre, Peter Courtland was born on January 30, 1949 in Northfield, Minnesota, United States.
Bachelor in Chemistry, with honors, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, 1970. Doctor of Medicine, John Hopkins University School Medicine, Baltimore, 1974.
Intern, resident internal medicine Case Western Reserve University & Hospital, Cleveland, 1975—1978. Postdoctoral fellow hematology/oncology division University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1978—1980, clinical assistant professor medicine, 1980—1981. From research associate, then instructor department medicine and cell biology/anatomy Johns Hopkins School Medicine, 1981—1983, assistant professor, 1984—1988, associate professor, 1988—1993, professor department biological chemistry and medicine, 1993—2005.
Professor department cell biology and department medicine Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 2005—2008, vice chancellor science and technical, 2005—2008. Director Malaria Research Institute, University professor Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School Public Health, since 2008. Senior clinical research scientist Wellcome Laboratories, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 1980—1981.
Visiting professor department embryology Carnegie Institution, Washington, 1988—1989. Member advisory board Norwegian Research & Technology Forum United States/Canada. Member international science council Israeli-Palestinian Science Organization.
Member science review board Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Honorary member International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation, since 2004. Member of American Association for the Advancement of Science (president since 2009), National Academy of Sciences (committee on human rights 2003-2008), American Philosophical Society, American Academy Arts & Sciences, Institute Medicine, American Society Nephrology (Homer Smith award 1999), American Society Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, American Physiological Society, American Society Clinical Investigation, American Society Cell Biology, Interurban Clinical Club (honorary).
Married Mary Herbert Macgill, March 29, 1975. Children: Sara Macgill, Claire Coleman, Clarke Gambrill, Anne Carlyle.