Robert F. Furchgott
Curriculum Vitae
| Robert F. Furchgott, born June 4, 1916 in Charleston, South Carolina, USA | |
| Address: | Department of Pharmacology, Box 29, SUNY Health Science Center, 450 Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA |
| Academic Education | |
| 1937 | B.S., Chemistry, University of North Carolina |
| 1940 | Ph.D., Biochemistry, Northwestern University |
| Appointments and Professional Activities | |
| 1956-88 | Professor, Dept of Pharmacology, State University of New York |
| 1988- | Distinguished Professor, State Univ of New York Health Science Center |
| 1962-63 | Professeur invité, Institut de Physiologie, Université de Genève |
| 1971-72 | Visiting Professor, School of Medicine, Univ of California, San Diego |
| 1980 | Visiting Professor of Pharmacology, Medical Univ of South Carolina |
| 1980 | Visiting Professor of Pharmacology, Univ of California, Los Angeles |
| 1988- | Adjunct Professor, Dept of Pharmacology, Univ of Miami School of Medicine |
| Fellowships and Awards |
| Honorary doctorates from the Universities of Madrid, Lund, Gent, North Carolina |
| Goodman & Gilman Award, 1984 |
| CIBA Award for Hypertension Research, 1988 |
| Gairdner Foundation Intern. Award, 1991 |
| Roussel-Uclaf Prize for Research in Signal Transduction, 1993 |
| Wellcome Gold Medal, British Pharmacological Society, 1995 |
| Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award, 1996 |
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