The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1998
The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1998 to Robert F Furchgott, Louis J Ignarro and Ferid Murad for their discoveries concerning “the nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system”.
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Robert F Furchgott, born 1916 Dept. of Pharmacology, SUNY Health Science Center New York |
Louis J Ignarro, born 1941 Dept. of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology UCLA School of Medicine Los Angeles |
Ferid Murad, born 1936 Dept. of Integrative Biology Pharmacology and Physiology University of Texas Medical School, Houston |
A New Principle
Nitric Oxide, NO, is a short-lived, endogenously produced gas that acts as a signalling molecule in the body. Signal transmission by a gas, produced by one cell, which penetrates membranes and regulates the function of other cells is an entirely new principle for signalling in the human organism.


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