The event’s opening ceremony is held at the University of Havana and it is expected that Dr. Peter Agre, of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the United States, will be acknowledged with an Honoris Causa degree from that institution.

Agre, a 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, shared the award with the Swedish Academy of Sciences for the discovery of aquaporins, a family of water channel proteins widespread throughout nature and have been implicated in several physiological processes and human clinical disorders.

Former director of the Johns Hopkins University Malaria Research Institute at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Agre also oversees field research in rural areas of Zambia, Zimbabwe, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The International Conference on Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Chemical Engineering, which will be held at the Conference Center in Havana until November 8, will be an opportunity to disseminate the latest breakthroughs in these sciences, including their impact on the biological, pharmaceutical, and materials sciences, among others.

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