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2012 Steve
Hebert Lecturer
Bill Guggino, Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine
William B. Guggino, Ph.D., Professor and Director of
Physiology at Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine is the recipient of the 2012 Hebert award. His
research is focused on investigating the structure and
function of chloride, potassium and water channels;
trafficking and molecular organization of transport
proteins in epithelial cell membranes; and gene therapy
for the correction of defective ion transport in cystic
fibrosis (CF) cells. His research on CF was
recognized last year when he won the Doris F. Tulcin
Cystic Fibrosis Research Award. In 1992, Dr. Guggino, in
collaboration with Peter Agre, M.D., published a seminal
paper in Science that described the discovery of the
very first aquaporin water channel. --Contributed by Bruce Stanton
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