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Louis Joseph Ignarro | |
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.jpg) Ignarro in 2013 | |
| Born | May 31, 1941 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Columbia University University of Minnesota |
| Known for | Nitric Oxide |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1998) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Pharmacology |
| Institutions | Tulane University School of Medicine UCLA School of Medicine King Saud University |
Louis Joseph Ignarro (born May 31, 1941) is an American pharmacologist. For demonstrating the signaling properties of nitric oxide, he was co-recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Robert F. Furchgott and Ferid Murad.
Currently, he is professor emeritus of pharmacology at the UCLA School of Medicine's department of molecular and medical pharmacology in Los Angeles, which he joined in 1985.[1] Before relocating to California, he was a professor of pharmacology at Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, for 12 years. Ignarro has also previously worked as a staff scientist, research department, for the pharmaceutical division of CIBA-GEIGY Corporation in New York.
Ignarro has published numerous research articles. He received the Basic Research Prize of the American Heart Association in 1998. This was in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the advancement of cardiovascular science. That same year, he was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences and the following year, into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Because nitric oxide is indirectly involved in the action of this drug, he is sometimes referred to as the "Father of Viagra".[2]
He is the founder of the Nitric Oxide Society, and founder and editor-in-chief of Nitric Oxide Biology and Chemistry.[3] Ignarro holds a B.S. in pharmacy, Columbia University, 1962, and a Ph.D. in pharmacology, University of Minnesota, School of Medicine, 1966. He also received a postdoctoral fellowship in chemical pharmacology from National Institutes of Health in 1968. He is a member of the scientific committee of Nicox, a French pharmaceutical company, a member of the Board of Directors of Antibe Therapeutics,[4] a Canadian drug discovery company, a member of the Board of Directors of Operation USA, a non-profit organization, and is past member of the Nutritional Advisory Board for Herbalife, a multi-level marketing company.
- ^ Ignarro, Louis J. "Louis J. Ignarro, Ph.D." Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California Los Angeles : Faculty Research. Los Angeles: University of California Los Angeles. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
- ^ AEI Speaker's Bureau
- ^ "UCLA Pharmacologist Wins Nobel Prize in Medicine for Work on Nitric Oxide as an Important Signaling Chemical". UCLA. Archived from the original on 2014-01-02. Retrieved 2012-01-23.
- ^ Antibe Therapeutics