April 23, 1999 - Nobel Prize Winning Researcher Ferid Murad Speaks at DePauw University

"The field has been so exciting," according to Ferid Murad, an Indiana native and DePauw University graduate, who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in medicine. Dr. Murad, a 1958 DePauw graduate, discussed "Discovery of Cellular Signaling with Nitric Oxide" in Kresge Auditorium in a Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture. The event marked Murad's first visit back to Indiana since receiving the Nobel Prize.

Dr. Murad is chairman of the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston and also director of The Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases. He was one of three researchers awarded the Nobel Prize on October 12, 1998 in recognition of their work for discovering that nitric oxide functions as a signal molecule in the cardiovascular system.