Dr. Peter Agre, 2003 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry; and director of the Malaria Research Institute, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s state-of-the-art malaria research facility; and member of the National Academy of Sciences; and member the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and and and... he recently headed a "science diplomacy" mission by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and US Collection, Humanitarian and Research Corps to Myanmar.
The delegation met with the Myanmar ministries of Forestry; Science & Technology; Health; Foreign Affairs, and with Yangon University. They exchanged ideas and discussed future collaborations between Myanmar and the U.S. Cooperation between the United States and Myanmar in science, education, and health care will serve to help break through political barriers and negative perceptions.
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