Peter Courtland Agre
M.D.
Dr. Peter Agre is a professor of biological chemistry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
He received the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Roderick MacKinnon of Rockefeller University for the discovery of aquaporins, water channels that facilitate the movement of water across cell membranes.
He became vice chancellor for science and technology at Duke University Medical Center in 2005.
Dr. Agre is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
He has received honorary doctorates from universities in Denmark, Japan, Norway, Greece, Mexico, Hungary, Poland and the United States.
Simon C. Robson
M.D.
Professor Simon C. Robson, MB, ChB, FRCP, FAASLD, PhD, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Professor Simon Robson is Professor of Anaesthesia and Charlotte F. & Irving W. Rabb Distinguished Professor of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Vice Chair of Research, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, and Director of the Center for Inflammation Research.
Professor Robson’s research areas are basic science, translational research, inflammation, vascular biology, immunity and immunometabolism.
Jørgen Frøkiær
M.D.
Professor Jørgen Frøkiær, MD, dr.med. is Chairman of the Department of Clinical Medicine at Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
Professor Jørgen Frøkiær has extensive research experience in basic science, nuclear medicine and in renal and cardiovascular diseases.
Robert Fenton
Professor Robert Fenton, PhD, Institute of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Professor Robert Fenton has extensive research experience in molecular regulation of membrane proteins and signaling mechanisms in relation to hypertension, kidney disease and water balance disorders. This incorporate proteomics/transcriptomics/bioinformatics, biochemistry, cell biology, high-resolution imaging, animal models, structural biology and high-throughput chemical screening.
