Salvador Moncada

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Moncada and the second or maternal family name is Seidner.
Sir Salvador Moncada
FRS FRCP FMedSci
Born (1944-12-03) 3 December 1944 (age 79)
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Other namesSalvador Enrique Moncada Seidner
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
Honduras
Alma mater
Known forProstacyclin
Spouses
  • Dorys Lemus (divorced)
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(m. 1998)​
Children4
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPharmacology
Institutions
Websitemanchester.ac.uk/research/salvador.moncada

Sir Salvador Enrique Moncada Seidner, 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.[3]

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.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

Sir Salvador was nominated by Xiomara Castro, the President of Honduras, to serve as their first Ambassador to China following the Honduran government's recognition of the People's Republic of China in March 2023. The Embassy in Beijing was opened in June 2023.[11]

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  2. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 December 2013. Retrieved 5 August 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "New Director for Institute of Cancer Sciences". The University of Manchester. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
  4. ^ Howlett, R. (1998). "Nobel award stirs up debate on nitric oxide breakthrough". Nature. 395 (6703): 625–6. Bibcode:1998Natur.395Q.625H. doi:10.1038/27019. PMID 9790176.
  5. ^ SoRelle, Ruth (1998). "Nobel Prize Awarded to Scientists for Nitric Oxide Discoveries". Circulation. 98 (22): 2365–2366. doi:10.1161/01.cir.98.22.2365. PMID 9832478.
  6. ^ De Berrazueta, J. R. (1999). "The Nobel Prize for nitric oxide. The unjust exclusion of Dr. Salvador Moncada". Revista espanola de cardiologia. 52 (4): 221–6. doi:10.1016/s0300-8932(99)74902-x. PMID 10217961.
  7. ^ Eldridge, S. "Paper prizes". The Guardian, Tuesday 20 November 2001
  8. ^ Birmingham, K. (2002). "Salvador Moncada". Nature Medicine. 8 (2): 98. doi:10.1038/nm0202-98. PMID 11821882. S2CID 5417990.
  9. ^ "He's had 68,889 namechecks..." Times Higher Education (THE). 29 April 2005. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
  10. ^ Roberto Valencia (2007) Inicio platicando. "Una vida útil (El perfil de un centroamericano de otro mundo: Salvador Moncada)" Archived 13 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ "Honduras nombra a científico como embajador en China". LA NACION (in Spanish). 3 June 2023. Retrieved 9 June 2023.