Ferid Murad - Biography.

Ferid Murad - Biography. American pharmacologist Birth September 14, 1936 Place of Whiting, Indiana Birth Known for Discovering that the human body uses the gas nitric oxide as a chemical signal to regulate cell activity. For this discovery, he shared the 1998 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with colleagues Louis Ignarro and Robert Furchgott. Career 1965 Completed his M.D. at the Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio 1965 Received his Ph.D. in pharmacology from the Western Reserve University School of Medicine 1971-81 Served as director of the Clinical Research Center at the University of Virginia 1973-81 Served as director of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Virginia 1975-81 Taught internal medicine and pharmacology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, Virginia 1981-88 Taught internal medicine and pharmacology at Stanford University in Stanford, California 1981-88 Acted as chief of medicine at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Palo Alto, California 1993-95 Served as CEO and president of the Molecular Geriatrics Corporation, Lake Bluff, Illinois Did You Murad and his colleagues' Nobel-winning discovery was initially rejected by most scientists. Know Nitric oxide is most commonly known as an air pollutant capable of damaging the lungs and causing chemical burns. One of nitric oxide's functions in the body is to signal muscle tissue surrounding blood vessels to relax, allowing more blood to flow. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.