1. Louis Joseph Ignarro was born on May 31,1941 and is an American pharmacologist.
28 Facts About Louis Ignarro
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Louis Ignarro received the Basic Research Prize of the American Heart Association in 1998.
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Louis Ignarro is the founder of the Nitric Oxide Society, and founder and editor-in-chief of Nitric Oxide Biology and Chemistry.
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Louis Ignarro received a postdoctoral fellowship in chemical pharmacology from National Institutes of Health in 1968.
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Louis J Ignarro was born in 1941 in Brooklyn, New York.
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Louis Ignarro's parents were Italian immigrants and his father was a carpenter in Torre del Greco, near Naples.
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Louis Ignarro grew up in Long Beach, New York, which is a suburb of New York City on the south shore of Long Island.
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Louis Ignarro received his first chemistry set as a gift at the age of 8.
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Louis Ignarro is married to anesthesiologist Dr Sharon Louis Ignarro and lives in Beverly Hills, California.
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Louis Ignarro is an avid cyclist and marathoner, having completed 13 marathons.
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Louis Ignarro has published multiple books for lay audiences about health and wellness focusing on the benefits of increasing nitric oxide production.
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Louis Ignarro is a frequent public speaker on these and related topics.
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Louis Ignarro attended Central Grade School and Long Beach High School.
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Louis Ignarro then attended the University of Minnesota where he received a Ph.
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Louis Ignarro's work continued at the NIH in the fields he had studied, collaborating with many other scientists to discover regulatory mechanisms of the cardiovascular system that would lead to his most famous work.
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In 1968, Louis Ignarro left the NIH to work for Geigy Pharmaceuticals.
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In 1973, Louis Ignarro accepted a position of assistant professor of pharmacology at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans.
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Louis Ignarro then speculated that nitric oxide could be the key to relaxing vascular smooth muscles.
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Louis Ignarro's research demonstrated that nitric oxide serves the functions of vasorelaxant and inhibitor of platelet aggregation, with both effects mediated by cyclic GMP.
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Furchgott and Louis Ignarro came to similar conclusions about nitric oxide as the EDRF around the same time, but it was Louis Ignarro who presented hard experimental evidence in support of this notion at conferences during 1986 demonstrating that EDRF is nitric oxide.
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In 1985, Louis Ignarro moved from New Orleans to Los Angeles where he accepted a position at the UCLA School of Medicine and continues to research and teach.
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Louis Ignarro has worked as a consultant for Herbalife since 2003 and later became a member of the company's Scientific Advisory Board.
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Louis Ignarro has collaborated in developing nutritional supplements for cardiovascular health and athletic performance.
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Louis Ignarro first worked with Herbalife to develop Niteworks, a dietary supplement designed to boost the body's own production of nitric oxide.
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Louis Ignarro endorsed this product in exchange for a royalty agreement reported to have earned his consulting firm over $1 million in the first 12 months.
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Louis Ignarro has continued to work with Herbalife to develop additional supplements focusing on nutrients such as Omega-3 fatty acid and CoQ10.
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Louis Ignarro appears in videos promoting Niteworks and other Herbalife products, and is a frequent speaker at Herbalife events.
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Since partnering with Herbalife, Louis Ignarro has spoken to more than five million people worldwide about nitric oxide and cardiovascular health.