Key facts
- Born
- ( 1941-05-31 ) May 31, 1941 (age 85) , Brooklyn, NY , U.S.
- Alma mater
- Columbia University , University of Minnesota
- Known for
- Nitric Oxide
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1998)
- Fields
- Pharmacology
- Institutions
- Tulane University School of Medicine , UCLA School of Medicine , King Saud University
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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. 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.
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1941 birthsAcademic staff of King Saud UniversityAmerican Nobel laureatesAmerican people of Italian descentAmerican pharmacologistsColumbia University College of Pharmacy alumniDavid Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA facultyLiving peopleLong Beach High School (New York) alumniMembers of the American Philosophical SocietyMembers of the National Academy of Medicine