Ferid Murad

Prix

1. 1996

   Prix Lasker — Prix Albert Lasker pour la recherche médicale fondamentale

   Biologie

   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

   prix Nobel — Médecine

   Biologie

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