18 Facts About Ferid Murad

Ferid Murad was an American physician and pharmacologist, and a co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Ferid Murad was born in Whiting, Indiana, on September 14,1936.

Ferid Murad's parents were Henrietta Josephine Bowman of Alton, Illinois, and Xhabir Murat Ejupi, an Albanian immigrant from Gostivar in present-day North Macedonia.

Ferid Murad's mother was from a Baptist family and ran away from home in 1935, aged 17, to marry his father, who was 39 and Muslim.

Ferid Murad was later baptized an Episcopalian while in college.

The family owned a small restaurant while Ferid Murad was growing up, and he spent his youth working at the family business.

Ferid Murad was a board-certified physician and internist doing both basic and clinical research with considerable teaching in medicine, pharmacology and clinical pharmacology and with a PhD in pharmacology.

Ferid Murad competed successfully for a Rector Scholarship at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, a liberal arts university on a tuition scholarship.

Ferid Murad received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from the pre-med program at DePauw University in 1958.

Ferid Murad ultimately decided to attend and became an early graduate of the first explicit MD and pharmacology Ph.

Ferid Murad began his academic career by joining the University of Virginia, where he was made associate professor, Depts.

Ferid Murad moved to Stanford University in 1981 where he was Chief of Medicine at the Palo Alto VA Medical Center, Associate Chairman, Dept.

Ferid Murad left his tenure at Stanford in 1988 for a position at Abbott Laboratories, where he served as a Vice President of Pharmaceutical Discovery until founding his own biotechnology company, the Molecular Geriatrics Corporation, in 1993.

Ferid Murad went back to academics and joined the McGovern Medical School to create a new department of integrative biology, pharmacology, and physiology in 1997.

Ferid Murad was a member of the National Academy of Sciences among other notable societies.

In 2015, Ferid Murad signed the Mainau Declaration 2015 on Climate Change on the final day of the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.

Ferid Murad was editing a book series published by Bentham Science Publishers titled Herbal medicine: Back to the Future; two volumes of which have already been published and a third volume was in preparation.

Ferid Murad died in Menlo Park, California, on September 4,2023, at the age of 86.