Louis J. Ignarro
Louis José Ignarro (born May 31, 1941 in Brooklyn , New York City ) is an American pharmacologist and Nobel Prize winner in medicine .
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Ignarro attended Central Grade School and Long Beach High School, then studied chemistry and pharmacology at Columbia University in New York through 1962 . He then studied at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis , where he received his doctorate in pharmacology in 1966. From 1968 he worked for the company Geigy Pharmaceuticals. In 1973 he became a professor at Tulane University in New Orleans . Since 1985 he has been a full professor and chair of pharmacology at UCLA Medical School , Los Angeles, California.
In 1998, together with Robert F. Furchgott and Ferid Murad, he received the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his knowledge of the body's own secondary messenger substance nitrogen monoxide ( nitric oxide , NO) and its role in the human cardiovascular system. The following year he was inducted into both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences . He has been a member of the American Philosophical Society since 2007 . Ignarro is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Herbalife International , Los Angeles, and is also a member of the Scientific Committee of the French pharmaceutical company Nicox .
See also
literature
- Gisela Baumgart: Ignarro, Louis J. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Encyclopedia of medical history. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 659.
Web links
- Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 1998 award to Louis J. Ignarro
Individual evidence
- ^ Member History: Louis J. Ignarro. American Philosophical Society, accessed October 9, 2018 (English, with a short biography).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ignarro, Louis J. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ignarro, Louis José (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American pharmacologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn , New York City |