Underskog

The lecture will share the experiences of a Nobel Prize winning medical scientist whose basic research included an international series of collaborations.

Application of this new knowledge led to new approaches to the prevention and treatment of disease, but also initiated a cascade of international engagement between American scientists and their counterparts in nations hostile to the U.S. government.

Peter Agre was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003. Agre is currently director of the Malaria Research Institute at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

As a scientist he combines advocacy of science diplomacy, a concern about inequities in health and resource distribution with stellar achievements in basic research.

The lecture is open for everyone. Coffee and tea will be served prior to the lecture. Refreshments will be served afterwards.

The lecture is part of the Science Debate project, which is a cooperative venture between the Science Library and the Fritt Ord foundation.