Salvador Moncada, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Salvador Moncada

British pharmacologist

Date of Birth: 03-Dec-1945

Place of Birth: Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazán Department, Honduras

Profession: university teacher, researcher, pharmacologist

Nationality: United Kingdom, Honduras

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Sir Salvador Moncada, FRS, FRCP, FMedSci (born 3 December 1944) is a Honduran-British pharmacologist and professor.
He is currently Research Domain Director for Cancer at the University of Manchester.In the past, he was the Research Director of the Wellcome Research Laboratories from 1986 to 1995 and, until recently, the Director of the UCL Wolfson Institute, which he established at University College London in 1996.
His research interests include inflammation and vascular biology and he is currently working on the regulation of cell proliferation.
He gained fame for his discoveries related to nitric oxide function and metabolism, and his exclusion from the 1996 Lasker Award and the 1998 Nobel Prize in medicine.