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Ferid Murad
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OverviewAI-generated
Ferid Murad (1936–2023) was a male author from Bangladesh. He is recognized as a Nobel Laureate in Medicine. His published works include *Herbal Medicine : Back to the Future*, *Infectious Diseases*, *Cancer Therapy*, and *Vascular Health*. Murad had five children.
He was recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection and the Nobel Medicine collection. His bibliography includes forty-five works, with five listed in Crossref records.
Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Nobel Prize, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1936
- Died
- 2023
- Works
- 45
Top works
- Herbal Medicine : Back to the Future
- Infectious Diseases
- Cancer Therapy
- Vascular Health
- Infectious Diseases
via Open Library + Wikidata
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Evaluation, Treatment, and Prevention of Vitamin D Deficiency: an Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline
· 2011 · cited 8,327x
- AASLD guidelines for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma
· 2017 · cited 3,439x
- PRISMA-S: an extension to the PRISMA Statement for Reporting Literature Searches in Systematic Reviews
· 2021 · cited 2,646x
- The Management of Primary Aldosteronism: Case Detection, Diagnosis, and Treatment: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline
· 2016 · cited 2,561x
- Baveno VII – Renewing consensus in portal hypertension
· 2022 · cited 2,555x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1936-09-14 ) September 14, 1936, Whiting, Indiana , U.S.
- Died
- September 4, 2023 (2023-09-04) (aged 86), Menlo Park, California , U.S.
- Education
- DePauw University ( BS ), Case Western Reserve University ( MD , PhD )
- Known for
- Discoveries concerning cyclic GMP as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system
- Spouse
- Carol A. Leopold
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1998) and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1996)
- Fields
- Biochemistry , Pharmacology
- Institutions
- University of Virginia (1970–81), Stanford University (1981–88), Northwestern University (1988–1998), Abbott Laboratories (1988–93), McGovern Medical School (1997–2011), George Washington University (2011–2017), Palo Alto VA Medical Center (2017–2023)
- Doctoral advisor
- Earl Sutherland, Jr. and Theodore Rall
via Wikipedia infobox
Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1998
“for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Whiting
- Place of death
- Menlo Park
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Case Western Reserve University
- Employer
- University of Virginia
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr.
- Field of work
- pharmacology
- Image
- Ferid Murad.jpg
- Number of children
- 5
- Residence
- Washington, D.C.
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- Commons category
- Ferid Murad
- date of birth
- 1936-09-14
- member of
- European Academy of Sciences
- Erdős number
- 8
- ethnic group
- Americans
- name in native language
- Ferid Murad
- date of death
- 2023-09-04
- interested in
- pharmacology
Sources (12)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Ferid Murad (September 14, 1936 – September 4, 2023) was an American physician and pharmacologist, His research demonstrated that nitroglycerin relaxes smooth muscle by releasing nitric oxide into the body. This work led to him sharing the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Early life
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