Professor Ferid Murad presents the Faculty of Medicine Centenary Lecture: ‘Nobel Prize winner 1998: Role of cGMP and Nitric oxide in health and disease ‘.
Biography: Professor Murad was born September 14, 1936 in Whiting, Indiana, USA. He received his undergraduate degree from DePauw University in 1958 and completed his MD and PhD studies at Western Reserve University, Cleveland in 1965. He then joined the University of Virginia, where he was made professor in 1970, before moving to Stanford in 1981.
Professor Murad was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1998 for his seminal work on guanylyl cyclase, nitric oxide and cGMP; work for which he received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1996.
Professor Murad has held a number of prestigious academic and industry appointments including Chief of Medicine Palo Alto Veterans Administration Medical Center; Vice President for Research at Abbott Laboratories and CEO/President of Molecular Geriatrics Corporation.
Professor Murad is now Director of the Institute of Molecular Medicine at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and holds the John S. Dunn Distinguished Chair in Physiology and Medicine.