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About Gheorghe Benga
- Gheorghe Benga (born January 26, 1944 in Timisoara, Romania) is a professor in the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Iuliu Hatieganu" of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
- He is a member of the Romanian Academy. In 1986, together with collaborators Octavian Popescu and Victor I.
- Pop, Benga showed the existence of a protein water channel in the red blood cell membrane Two years later, in 1988, Peter Agre independently isolated the protein and demonstrated it was a ubiquitously expressed water transport protein, naming it aquaporin.
- In 2003 Agre would receive the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work.
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