Robert F. Furchgott

Awards

1. 1991

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   For his discovery and characterization of endothelial relaxing factor.

2. 1996

   Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Biology

   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.

3. 1998

   Nobel Prize — Medicine

   Biology

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