Critics say Laskers omitted NO pioneer
Marshall, E.; Moncada, S.
Science 274(5285): 173-174
1996
ISSN/ISBN: 0036-8075 PMID: 8927975 Document Number: 459781
Several distinguished scientists have made a semipublic protest at the handling of the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. The award was given to two Americans, Robert Furchgott of the State University of New York Health Science Center in Brooklyn and Ferid Murad, former CEO of Molecular Geriatrics Corp. in Lake Bluff, Illinois, for their discoveries leading to the fundamental understanding of the role of nitric oxide in health and disease. Dissenters claim that the recipient list should have been longer and that the Lasker committee failed to name pioneers in the field: Salvador Moncada of University College, London, and Lou Ignarro of the University of California, Los Angeles. The most outspoken member of the dissenting group is Sir John Vane of Cambridge University who says that Moncada created the field of nitric oxide physiology.