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JHU prof awarded Nobel Prize
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. 7 was awarded the 2003 Nobel
Prize
in chemistry by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The
academy recognized him 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.
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Review set for medical curriculum
Substantive change could be in store for the School
of Medicine's academic fabric. In May, Dean Edward D.
Miller convened a Curriculum Reform Committee charged with
examining the school's current curriculum to ensure that
Johns Hopkins is providing "the best and ideal education
for future leaders in medicine."
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Robert Blum, leading adolescent health authority, joins
Public Health
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has
named Robert Wm. Blum, a leading authority in adolescent
health, to chair its Department of Population and Family
Health Sciences. Blum joins the faculty from the University
of Minnesota, where he is director of the Division of
General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health and director of
the World Health Organization's Collaborating Center in
Adolescent Health. Blum will begin the transition to his
new duties with the School of Public Health in January
2004.
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