Awards & Winners

Ferid Murad

Date of Birth 14-September-1936
Place of Birth Whiting
(Lake County, Indiana, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Scientist, Professor, Physician
Ferid Murad is an Albanian-American physician and pharmacologist, and a co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He is also an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo.

Awards by Ferid Murad

Check all the awards nominated and won by Ferid Murad.

1998


Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system)

1996


Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
(For ingenious elucidation of the cyclic GMP signaling pathway of nitric oxide and for essential discoveries that led to establishing the link between endothelium-derived relaxing factor and nitric oxide.)