Nobel laureate Louis Ignarro comes to Vietnam
(VOV) - American pharmacologist Louis J.Ignarro, who was co-recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, attended a seminar on Nitric Oxide’s role in cardiovascular treatment, held in HCM City on April 27.
He delivered a keynote speech at the event that attracted more than 300 medical experts, doctors and leading pharmacists in cardiovascular disease.
Louis J.Ignarro is professor of pharmacology at the UCLA School of Medicine's department of molecular and medical pharmacology in Los Angeles.
Over the past 50 years Ignarro has made a substantial contribution to healthcare development, especially in treating cardiovascular illnesses such as idiopathic hypertension, stroke, coronary artery disease, and vascular complications of diabetes.
He was the first Nobel laureate in medicine travelling to Vietnam.