Julius Axelrod

Premios

1. 1967

   Premio Internacional Canadá Gairdner

   Biología

   In recognition of his wide-ranging and fundamental discoveries in relation to the chemistry, biosynthesis, metabolism and pharmacology of biogenic amines, especially the catecholamines.This work has had a major influence in the fields of hypertension and psychopharmacology.

2. 1970

   Premio Nobel — Medicina

   Biología

   for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmittors in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation