Salvador Moncada
Sir Salvador Enrique Moncada, FRS, FRCP, FRCS (born 3 December 1944, Tegucigalpa, Honduras)[1] is a Honduran-British physician and pharmacologist. He is the husband of Princess Marie-Esméralda of Belgium, who is a member of the Belgian Royal Family.
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[edit] Background
Moncada is the director of the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research at the University College London. In El Salvador, he qualified to be a doctor because he was interested in cardiovascular science. His interest was triggered by working with the Peruvian pharmacologist, Augusto Campos who, at that time, was visiting the University of El Salvador.[citation needed]
In February 1971, he earned a fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (FRCS) at the Laboratory of Sir John Vane. In Sir John Vane's laboratory he was part of the team where it was discovered that aspirin-like drugs inhibit prostaglandin biosynthesis. In 1974, he went back to Honduras to do research. He returned to the UK where he joined the Wellcome research laboratories, again under the leadership of Sir John Vane.[citation needed]
Moncada is furthermore a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences since 1994[2], a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) and an Honorary Fellow of UCL.[3]
[edit] Personal life
He is married to Her Royal Highness Princess Maria-Esmeralda of Belgium, in London on 4 April 1998. They have a daughter, Alexandra Leopoldine (born in London on 4 August 1998), and a son, Leopoldo Daniel (born in London on 21 May 2001).
[edit] Writings
He is the author or co-author of almost 600 papers, including his work on aspirin, prostacyclin, and nitric oxide.
[edit] Recognitions
In 1990 he was awarded with the Spanish "Prince of Asturias Scientific and Technological Research Award"[4]
In 1992 the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science awarded him the "Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine"[5]
Moncada received a British knighthood in the 2010 New Year Honours for services to science.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Birmingham, K. (2002). "Salvador Moncada". Nature Medicine 8 (2): 98. doi:10.1038/nm0202-98. PMID 11821882.
- ^ Moncada, Salvador - webiste of the National Academy of Sciences
- ^ a b New Year’s Honours for UCL staff - website of the UCL
- ^ "Prince of Asturias Scientific and Technological Research Award"
- ^ Dr A. H. Heineken Prize for Medicine
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- ISI highly cited researchers
- 1944 births
- Living people
- Academics of University College London
- British medical doctors
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Honduran physicians
- Honduran scientists
- Knights Bachelor
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- People associated with University College London
- People from Tegucigalpa
- People from London
- Royal Medal winners
