Awards & Winners

Raymond P. Ahlquist

Date of Birth 1914
Place of Birth Missoula
(Missoula County, Montana)
Nationality
Raymond Perry Ahlquist was an American pharmacist and pharmacologist. He published seminal work in 1948 that divided adrenoceptors into α- and β-adrenoceptor subtypes. This discovery explained the activity of several existing drugs and also laid the ground work for new drugs including the widely prescribed beta blockers.

Awards by Raymond P. Ahlquist

Check all the awards nominated and won by Raymond P. Ahlquist.

1976


Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
(For his concept of alpha and beta receptors, which opened the door to the development of propranolol, a milestone drug in the treatment of heart diseases and severe high blood pressure.)