October 8, 2003

Dear Colleagues:

One of the happiest days in a Dean's tenure is the opportunity to report that one of the Hopkins family has won the Nobel Prize.

So it is with great pleasure I share the news that Peter Agre, M.D., was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
He shares this honor with Roderick MacKinnon of Rockefeller University.

Peter, who is professor of biological chemistry and of medicine, has been on the Hopkins faculty since 1984. He was recognized by the Academy for his laboratory's discovery of proteins that regulate water transport in living cells and his work has profound implications for many human diseases of the kidney, heart and other organs. Please join me in congratulating Peter and his entire laboratory of colleagues. This is a wonderful day for him, and for all of Hopkins.

Edward D. Miller, M.D.
Dean of the Medical Faculty
CEO Johns Hopkins Medicine