Louis J. Ignarro Birthday May 31

Louis J. Ignarro is an American pharmacologist was born in May 31, 1941. He was corecipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Robert F. Furchgott and Ferid Murad for demonstrating the signaling properties of nitric oxide.

He is currently professor of pharmacology at the UCLA School of Medicine's department of molecular and medical pharmacology in Los Angeles, which he joined in 1985 and He is the founder of the Nitric Oxide Society, and founder and editor-in-chief of Nitric Oxide Biology and Chemistry.

Ignarro has published numerous articles on his research. He received the Basic Research Prize of the American Heart Association in 1998, 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.

Awards and Recognitions

By 1998 Ignarro was the winner of 11 consecutive Golden Apples, the award UCLA medical students give to the year's best teacher.

2008 American Heart Association Distinguished Scientist.



References:

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1998/ignarro-autobio.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Ignarro