Source: ISNA

Chemistry Nobel Laureate Peter Agre, Professor and Director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute and Dr. Norman Neureiter the Acting Director of Center for Science, Technology & Security Policy of American Association for the Advancement of Science and the first US scientific ambassador to Europe are to arrive in Tehran in coming days.

Dr, Norman Neureiter is scheduled to deliver a lecture on "International Cooperation on Science and Technology Diplomacy, Opportunities and Challenges in the 21 Century" in Iranian Shahid Beheshti University on June 11.

Also Professor Peter Agre will attend the ceremony.

Peter Agre born on January 30, 1949 is an American medical doctor, professor, and molecular biologist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (which he shared with Roderick MacKinnon for his discovery of aquaporins. Aquaporins are water-channel proteins that move water molecules through the cell membrane.

In February 2009, Peter Agre was inducted as the 163rd president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the nation's largest scientific organization. He is currently a professor at Johns Hopkins University.

He received his B.A. from Augsburg College in Minneapolis and his M.D. in 1974 from the Johns Hopkins University 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 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.

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US Chemistry Nobel Laureate to arrive in Tehran