Gheorghe Benga
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Gheorghe Benga (born January 26, 1944 in Timişoara, Romania) is a professor in the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Iuliu Haţieganu" 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. The discovery was published in 1986 in the journals Biochemistry[1] and the European Journal of Cell Biology.[2] Two years later, in 1988, Peter Agre discovered and isolated the same protein which he named aquaporin.[3] In 2003 Agre received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, shared with Roderick MacKinnon.
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- Gheorghe Benga's publications, Google Scholar search for the publications of Gheorghe Benga
- http://www.ad-astra.ro/benga/index.php
