Ferid Murad

Premios

1. 1996

   Premio Lasker — Premio Albert Lasker de Investigación Médica Básica

   Biología

   For discoveries concerning the endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF), now known to be nitric oxide, a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system. For the 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.

2. 1998

   Premio Nobel — Medicina

   Biología

   for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system