Louis Ignarro

Louis Joseph Ignarro is an American pharmacologist, born in 1941, who shared the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Robert F. Furchgott and Ferid Murad for demonstrating the signaling properties of nitric oxide. He is professor emeritus of pharmacology at the UCLA School of Medicine, in its department of molecular and medical pharmacology, which he joined in 1985. Before moving to California he was for twelve years a professor of pharmacology at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, and he had earlier worked as a staff scientist for the pharmaceutical division of CIBA-GEIGY in New York. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.