ΘΕΜΑ: Ανακοίνωση-Πρόσκληση από Τμήμα Χημείας ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΕΑΣ: Anna Pantelidaki <pantelia@xxxxxx> ΑΝΑΚΟΙΝΩΣΗ Το Τμήμα Χημείας του Πανεπιστημίου Κρήτης με χαρά σας προσκαλεί σε ανοικτή διαδικτυακή διάλεξη με θέμα «Opening Doors Worldwide through Medical Science» και ομιλητή τον βραβευμένο με βραβείο Νόμπελ Χημείας Καθηγητή του Πανεπιστημίου Johns Hopkins, Malaria Research Institute Bloomberg School of Public Health Peter Agre, η οποία θα πραγματοποιηθεί την Παρασκευή 5 Φεβρουαρίου 2021, στις 16:00. Στον Peter Agre απονεμήθηκε το βραβείο Νόμπελ Χημείας μαζί με τον Roderick MacKinnon το 2003 για την καινοτόμο έρευνά τους πάνω στα κανάλια νερού των μεμβρανικών πρωτεϊνων. Η διάλεξη απευθύνεται σε φοιτητές-μεταπτυχιακούς-ερευνητές χημείας, ιατρικής αλλά και σε ευρύτερο κοινό. Μπορείτε να παρακολουθήσετε διαδικτυακά την εκδήλωση μέσω του συνδέσμου στο YouTube: ΠΑΡΑΣΚΕΥΗ / 5 ΦΕΒΡΟΥΑΡΙΟΥ 2021 / 16:00 Abstract Opening Doors Worldwide through Medical Science Peter Agre, MD Bloomberg Distinguished Professor and Director Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, Maryland USA The major lesson I learned from a four-decade career in medical science is that we have a unique opportunity to make the world a better place. As a student at Johns Hopkins in the 1970ʼs, I worked in an international research laboratory on the important, but not glamorous, problem of infectious diarrhea. This work brought me in contact with a group of fascinating and colorful researchers from around the world, and it certainly changed my life. Subsequently as a Johns Hopkins faculty member, our research group discovered the aquaporin water channels that facilitate the movement of water across cell membranes. This led to multiple international collaborations including studies with renal physiologists in Denmark, neuroscientists in Norway, structural biologists in Switzerland and Japan. For the past decade, we have worked closely with African malaria scientists and their field workers in rural Zambia, Zimbabwe, and D.R. Congo. While the practical value of these discoveries is just emerging, useful new preventive strategies and treatments for multiple disorders are anticipated including malaria. The human contacts we have developed have also proven useful to address serious infringements of human rights and even opens doors to countries isolated by ideology or repressive regimes, by establishing valuable areas of engagement. As former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, I became active in science diplomacy and led groups of U.S. scientists that visited Cuba, Iran, and North Korea. The potential of medical science should continue to be explored and is a source of great optimism for an otherwise troubled planet. -- Ioulia Smonou Professor Department of Chemistry, University of Crete Heraklion-Voutes 70013, Crete, Greece Tel: +30 2810 545010 Fax: +30 2810 545164 Email: smonou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.chemistry.uoc.gr/organic/smonou.html |