Ferid Murad
From Philosopedia
Murad, Ferid (14 September 1936 – )
A physician, Murad co-edited The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics (1985).
He taught in the University of Texas Medical School’s Department of Integrative biology, Pharmacology, and Physiology.
In 1998, with Robert F. Furchgott and Louis J. Ignarro, Murad won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. They shared the prize for discovering the role of nitric oxide as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system—their work paved the way for several medical breakthroughs, including the anti-impotence drug Viagra.
Murad signed Humanist Manifesto 2000.
(See the autobiography given to the Nobel Prize organization.)
