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The newspaper of The Johns Hopkins University March 3, 2008 | Vol. 37 No. 24
 
SPH Welcomes Peter Agre

Provost Kristina Johnson chats with Peter Agre.
Photo by Will Kirk / HIPS

By Jackie Frank
School of Public Health

Colleagues old and new feted Peter Agre last week at a reception at the Bloomberg School of Public Health to officially welcome the Nobel Prize-winning biochemist as the new director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute.

Agre, who spent three decades at Johns Hopkins' School of Medicine before becoming vice chancellor for science and technology at Duke University Medical Center in 2005, took over the institute on Jan. 1. As director, he oversees 19 faculty members who concentrate on advancing basic science to develop new methods in malaria prevention and treatment.

"We needed a person to inspire young faculty — and old faculty — to provide scientific leadership and to provide the visibility we think is appropriate for this institute," said Diane Griffin, founding director of the institute and chair of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Bloomberg School.

Dean Michael J. Klag added, "His passion for the health of the human race is palpable. The attraction of working on a disease that kills more than 1 million people a year — that's what got him here."

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