Havana, August 16 (RHC)-- U.S. biologist and university professor Peter Courtland Agre received today in Havana a Corresponding Membership of the Cuban Academy of Sciences. 

Courtland Agre is the recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.  He made his first visit to Cuba in November 2009, at the head of a U.S. scientific delegation.  His membership status in the Cuban Academy of Sciences was given him in consideration of his outstanding contribution to scientific development.

Peter Courtland Agre, 68, is the director of the Malaria Research Institute at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

The U.S. scientist is the 29th foreign Corresponding Member of the Cuban Academy of Sciences. 

American Mark Rasenick, a distinguished professor of Physiology, Biophysics and Psychiatry at the University of Illinois, Chicago, also received a Corresponding Membership of the Cuban Academy of Sciences in 2016.