Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1998

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Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Medical School Department of Integrative Biology, Pharmacology and Physiology, receives the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine from Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf, right, at the Stockholm Concert Hall on Dec. 10, 1998.   (AP Wide World Photos)

 

UT System Nobel Laureates
Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D., chairman of the UT-Houston Medical School - Department of Integrative Biology, Pharmacology and Physiology, is the seventh Nobel Laureate within the 15-campus UT System.
Other Nobel Laureates in the UT System are:
	Alfred G. Gilman, M.D., Ph.D., of the UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, who shared the 1994 prize in physiology or medicine for discovery of G-proteins and how cells confuse messages and foster diseases.
	Johann Deisenhofer, Ph.D., of the UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, who shared the 1988 prize in chemistry for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction center.
	Michael S. Brown, M.D., and Joseph L. Goldstein, M.D., of the UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, who won the 1985 prize in physiology or medicine for discoveries involving cholesterol and cholesterol-related diseases.
	Michael S. Brown, M.D., and Joseph L. Goldstein, M.D., of the UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, who won the 1985 prize in physiology or medicine for discoveries involving cholesterol and cholesterol-related diseases.
	Steven Weinberg, Ph.D., of UT Austin, who shared the 1979 prize in physics for contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles.
	Ilya Prigogine, Ph.D., of UT Austin, who received the 1977 prize in chemistry for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics.