He showed that nitric oxide -- an air pollutant -- plays a key role in relaxing blood vessels. The startling discovery led to medical advances in treating heart disease and erectile dysfunction.
, the Swedish organization noted its namesake had been prescribed nitroglycerin for heart disease.
Ferid Murad was born in Whiting, Ind., on Sept. 14, 1936. He was known most of his life as Fred. His father, an Albanian immigrant, and mother owned a restaurant. Along with his two brothers, Fred worked long hours in the restaurant washing dishes, taking orders and running the cash register., “I knew that I wanted considerable education so I wouldn’t have to work as hard as my parents.”
Dr. Murad was a pre-med and chemistry major at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., where he graduated in 1958, the same year he married Carol Leopold, an English and Spanish major at the school. He received his medical degree and doctorate in pharmacology from Western Reserve University in Cleveland in 1965.
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