Ferid Murad-1998 Nobel Laureate for Nitric Oxide Research

From: Mayo Clinic Proceedings | Date: October 1, 2004| Author: Kyle, Robert A; Steensma, David P; Shampo, Marc A | Copyright information

American scientist Ferid Murad shared the 1998 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with 2 other American scientists, Robert F. Furchgott (1916- ) and Louis J. Ignarro (1941- ), for their discovery that nitric oxide, a gas, acts as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system. Furchgott working at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Brooklyn, Ignarro working at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine, and Murad working at the University of Te...

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