The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), publisher of the peer-reviewed science journal Science, recently announced that Nobel laureate Peter C. Agre has been chosen to serve as president-elect of AAAS beginning February 19, 2008. Agre, a chemist and Vice Chancellor for Science and Technology at Duke University School of Medicine, will assume presidency of AAAS in February 2009.
Agre shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of aquaporins, the key proteins that transport water across cell membranes. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, chair of the NAS Committee on Human Rights and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
On February 19, the current president-elect, James J. McCarthy, will begin a one-year term as AAAS president. McCarthy is the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography at Harvard University. The current president, David Baltimore, will begin a one-year term as chairman of the AAAS Board of Directors. Baltimore is the Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Biology and head of the Baltimore Lab at the California Institute of Technology.
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