Salvador Moncada Biography

Salvador Moncada is a Honduran-British pharmacologist and professor who has done path-breaking work in the discovery and development of new drugs. His discoveries aroused huge excitement in the scientific world and he was one of the world's most cited scientists throughout the 1990s. He was born in Honduras, and after completing his medical studies and obtaining a doctorate, became the Research Director of the Wellcome Research Laboratories. While at the post, he initiated various investigations on potential cures of several infectious diseases, and most importantly, led the research team working on prostaglandins. Later, he founded the UCL Wolfson Institute at University College London and served as its director for more than a decade. His later research focused more on subjects such as inflammation, vascular biology and the regulation of cell proliferation. He holds several honorary degrees from prestigious universities around the world. He holds five patents related to different drugs, and also serves as the author, contributor or manager of about 400 scientific publications. He is one of the most celebrated pharmacologists of the 20th century