Louis J. Ignarro

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1998

“for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system”

Louis J. Ignarro is an American pharmacologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1998 for discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system. His research helped establish the role of nitric oxide in vascular regulation.