Louis Ignarro

Dr. Ignarro received the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1998. Dr. Ignarro received a B.S. in pharmacy from Columbia University and his Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Ignarro is an esteemed medical researcher.

Dr. Ignarro has been a director since July 2002. He previously served as a director of Global Genomics from November 20, 2000 until July 2002. Dr. Ignarro serves as the Jerome J. Belzer, M.D. Professor Emeritus in the Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at the UCLA School of Medicine. Retired in 2013, Dr. Ignarro had been at the UCLA School of Medicine since 1985 as a professor, acting chairman and assistant dean.