Nobel Laureates:
Ferid Murad earned both his MD and PhD degrees in 1965 from the school. He was part of a team awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1998—“for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system.”
Alumnus Alfred Gilman earned MD and PhD degrees in 1969 from the school. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with researcher Martin Rodbell in 1994 “for their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells.”
Earl W. Sutherland Jr. was professor and chair of pharmacology at Western Reserve University from 1953 to 1963, and in 1971, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for his discoveries concerning the mechanisms of the action of hormones.”
George H. Hitchings, a faculty member at Western Reserve University’s Department of Biochemistry from 1939 to 1942, was part of a team awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1988 “for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment.”
Peter Agre completed his clinical training at Case Western Reserve, through University Hospitals Case Medical Center, from 1975 to 1978 and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2003 with Roderick MacKinnon “for the discovery of water channels.”
Frederick C. Robbins came to Western Reserve University in 1952 as a professor of pediatrics, was appointed dean of the School of Medicine in 1966 and in1954 won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue.”
Paul Berg, who earned his PhD in biochemistry from Western Reserve University in 1952, was part of the team receiving the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980 “for the fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA.”
