
a Nobel† Laureate in Medicine
A Nobel Laureate in Medicine
- He has made exceptional contributions to the advancement of science, including winning the Nobel† Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1998 for his research on nitric oxide.
- He served as Professor of Pharmacology at Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans.
- He has published many articles and received the Basic Research Prize of the American Heart Association for outstanding contributions to the advancement of cardiovascular science.
- He holds a B.S. in Pharmacology, Columbia University, 1962, and a Ph.D. in Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, 1966. He received his Postdoctoral Fellowship from the National Institutes of Health, 1968.
- He is a member of the editorial board of the Herbalife Nutrition Institute and a member of Herbalife’s Nutrition Advisory Board.
- He is currently a distinguished professor of pharmacology at the UCLA School of Medicine’s Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology in Los Angeles, which he joined in 1985.
- He is the founder of the Nitric Oxide Society, and founder and editor-in-chief of “Nitric Oxide Biology and Chemistry.