Ferid Murad

Ferid Murad was an American physician and pharmacologist, born in 1936, whose 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 with Robert F. Furchgott and Louis Ignarro. He was encouraged to enter a new MD-PhD program at Case Western Reserve University. In 1981 he moved to Stanford University, where he was Chief of Medicine at the Palo Alto VA Medical Center. His father was an Albanian immigrant from Gostivar in present-day North Macedonia.