Bench or Bedside? A Conversation with Ferid Murad
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - 17:30
in Health & Medicine
Camelia-Lucia Cimpianu, an early-career scientist who attended the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting this summer in Germany, is trying to decide between a career as a researcher or a practising doctor.In this film, she seeks advice from Nobel Laureate Ferid Murad who faced the same dilemma as a medical student in the 1960s. Murad chose the bench, and he subsequently discovered that nitric oxide acts as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system. It turns out that nitric oxide plays a role in many diseases--and possibly in the head trauma cases that Camelia studies. [More]