Salvador Moncada
Salvador Moncada · Science & Medicine
Pharmacologist who discovered prostacyclin and helped elucidate nitric oxide signaling
1944, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Honduras · United Kingdom
Salvador Moncada is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Pharmacologist who discovered prostacyclin and helped elucidate nitric oxide signaling
Moncada is a Honduran-British pharmacologist who co-discovered prostacyclin in 1976 and made key contributions to understanding nitric oxide as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system, work central to modern vascular pharmacology. He led research at the Wellcome laboratories and University College London. He is of Jewish maternal ancestry: his mother, Jenny Seidner, came from a Jewish family that fled Nazi persecution in Europe.
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Pharmacologist who discovered prostacyclin and helped elucidate nitric oxide signaling
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
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