Ferid Murad, M.D., PH.D.

A distinguished man of science, Dr. Murad has earned numerous notable awards, including the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology.

Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D., is an Albanian American Physician and Pharmacologist, a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology, and a world-renowned pioneer in biochemistry. In 1998, Dr. Murad and two other scientists received the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology for their discovery of the role of nitric oxide in the body as a key signaling molecule increasing cyclic GMP and dilating blood vessels. This work has immensely impacted medicine, patient care, and drug development, drastically improving our understanding of the body and the function of certain drugs, such as nitroglycerin. Dr. Murad was born in Whiting, Indiana, to Jabir Murat Ejupi,an Albanian immigrant from Gostivar, Macedonia, and Josephine Bowman, an American from Alton, Illinois. His father arrived in the United States via Ellis Island in 1913. After completion of his bachelor’s degree in Premedical Science and Chemistry at DePauw University, Dr. Murad studied in one of the first physician-scientist training programs, earning his M.D. and Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in 1965. He completed an Internal Medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and continued his training in a fellowship at the National Institutes of Health.