"Beloved by his medical students, who gave him a record 10 Golden Apple Awards as an exemplary teacher of the basic sciences, Ignarro is the first Nobel Laureate from the UCLA School of Medicine and the fifth from UCLA's roster of world-renowned scientists. When Ignarro first began studying nitric oxide in 1978, few envisioned its significance. Today, hundreds of scientists are in hot pursuit of nitric oxide's other secrets. Ignarro's research has already paved the way for the development of Viagra and may one day lead to the conquest of hypertension, stroke and arteriosclerosis." --Cynthia Lee, UCLA Magazine

Follow the links for more information on Louis Ignarro:

• Academic Press announces the award of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to three of its authors, Louis J. Ignarro, Robert F. Furchgott, and Ferid Murad, along with a listing of their publications.
• Channel 2000 interviewed Louis Ignarro in a Special Assignment called "Nobel Dream."
• CNN focuses on Ignarro and his co-recipients, Furchgott and Murad, and provides an overview of their research.
• UCLA Magazine covers popular UCLA pharmacologist Louis Ignarro and his examination of the therapeutic benefits of nitroglycerin and how he went on to make his explosive discovery in "Bruin Nobelity."
• UCLA School of Medicine covers the event in pictures.
• UCLA Today writes about "Dr. No's Adventures in Science."

Some science-related UCLA sites:

• Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library supports the educational, research, patient care, and administrative needs of the UCLA faculty, staff, and students. The Library serves primarily the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, and Public Health, the UCLA Medical Center, the departments of Biology, Microbiology, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, Physiological Sciences, and Psychology, in the College of Letters and Sciences, and related institutes in biomedicine.
• Challenge is UCLA's research magazine. Published by the Office of the Vice Chancellor, Research, Challenge provides an overview of the school's research environment and commitment.
• Research @ UCLA provides important information about the research activities and expertise at UCLA. New web links to research news, projects and opportunities are added frequently.
• UCLA School of Medicine gives its students the best of all worlds -- strong, research-oriented basic and clinical science departments; a hospital consistently ranked among the nation's elite; superb affiliated clinical facilities that provide the full spectrum of teaching settings and patient populations; and a biomedical library that is considered one of the world's best.
• UCLA Molecular & Medical Pharmacology offers a comprehensive educational experience. The department focuses on the molecular and cellular mechanisms of normal organ function, and the aberrations that lead to human disease, as well as the development of therapeutics to ameliorate disease processes from the level of conventional drugs to gene therapy.
• Undergraduate Research at UCLA is an entry point for students interested in getting involved in undergraduate research and provides visitors with a snapshot of students in research and the links between education and research.

More on Ignarro's co-recipients:

• Robert F. Furchgott
• Ferid Murad

More on the Nobel Prize:

• The Nobel Foundation is the official website.
• The Nobel Prize Internet Archive is not the official website, but has some good information and links on winners past and present.

UCLA programs currently running on UCTV:

• Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture: Talking Peace -- Jimmy Carter
• A Conversation with UCLA Professor Emeritus Paul D. Boyer
• A Conversation with UCLA Professor Louis J. Ignarro
• Do Fish Have Noses?
• Erick Hawkins 1964
• The Evolution of International Entrepreneurship
• Experiences in International Entrepreneurship
• Faculty Research Lectures
  • Giorgio Buccellati
  • Robert B. Goldberg
  • Harvey R. Herschman
  • Carole Pateman
  • Michael E. Phelps
  • S. Lawrence Zipursky
  • Christopher B. Donnan
  • Andrea M. Ghez
• Mildred Mathias: A Lifetime of Memories
• Rethinking National Security
• Roth Quartet: The Sixteen Quartets of Beethoven
• The Struggle for Social Justice: Excerpts from a Symposium on Recognition, Peparations and Redress
  • Accounting for the Debt: Appeasement, Apology or Accountability
  • Achieving Social Justice: What Form of Redress?
  • The Struggle of Inequality: Manning Marable, Columbia University
• The View From Within: Japanese-American Art from the Internment Camps, 1942-1945