Annual Distinguished Lecture
Addressing scientific breakthroughs, social, cultural and policy issues
The Aston University Annual Distinguished Lecture, established by our Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive Professor Aleks Subic in 2023, aims to bring influential speakers to the University to address major scientific breakthroughs, as well as social, cultural and policy issues.
The first Distinguished Lecture was given by Nobel Laureate Peter Agre on Thursday 25 May 2023.
Professor Agre, an eminent American physician and molecular biologist and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2003 “for the discovery of water channels”.
He delivered an address on his discovery of aquaporin channels - the ‘plumbing system for cells’ - and its profound impact on scientific research in this field.
See our photos from the Distinguished Lecture 2023 below: