Salvador Moncada

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In this
Spanish name, the first or paternal surname
is Moncada and the second or maternal family name is Seidner.
FMedSci
Born (1944-12-03) 3 December 1944 (age 79)
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Other namesSalvador Enrique Moncada Seidner
Alma mater
Known forProstacyclin
Spouses
  • Dorys Lemus
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(m. 1998)​
Children4
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPharmacology
Institutions
Websitemanchester.ac.uk/research/salvador.moncada

Sir Salvador Enrique Moncada Seidner,

pharmacologist and professor. He is currently Research Domain Director for Cancer at the University of Manchester.[3]

In the past, he was the Research Director of the Wellcome Research Laboratories from 1986 to 1995 and, until recently, the Director of the

Nobel Prize in medicine.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

Sir Salvador was nominated by Xiomara Castro, the President of Honduras, to serve as their first Ambassador to China following the Honduran government's recognition of the People's Republic of China in March 2023. The Embassy in Beijing is due to be opened when President Castro visits in June 2023.[11]

Early life and education

Moncada was born in

Beckenham, Kent), where he became director of research in 1986. In 1996 he moved to University College London
, where he set up the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research in the Cruciform Building, which he directed until 2012.

Research

His scientific career began at the Royal College of Surgeons, where he collaborated in the discovery that aspirin-like drugs inhibit

zomig (for treatment of migraine headaches), and initiated the work that resulted in the development of lapatinib for the treatment of breast cancer. He was also responsible for the identification of nitric oxide as a biological mediator and the elucidation of the metabolic pathway leading to its synthesis. A great deal of the early work on the biological significance of nitric oxide in the cardiovascular system came from his laboratory, as well as some fundamental information about the role of nitric oxide in the peripheral and central nervous systems
and in cancer. His later work has focused on the areas of mitochondrial biology and cell metabolism. Most recently, his work has led to the finding of the molecular mechanism that coordinates cell proliferation with the provision of metabolic substrates required for this process.

Publications

Moncada is the author of more than 500 peer-reviewed papers and highly cited reviews, including

Other interests

Moncada is interested in medical education and in the development of science and technology in Latin America. He has been a consultant of the

Panamerican Health Organization
(PAHO, the regional office of the WHO) and in recent years he founded Honduras Global – an international network of experts involved in supporting the development of Honduras.

Awards and honours

Moncada is an elected member of a number of international scientific societies. Foreign Member of the

Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1988.[12]

He has received honorary degrees from more than twenty universities, including Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science,

University Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris, France (1997) and Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science of the University of Edinburgh
, Scotland (2000).

His prizes and distinguished lectures include: The VIII Gaddum Memorial Lecture,

Croonian Lecture at the Royal Society, London, UK (2005), the Debrecen Award for Molecular Medicine from the University of Debrecen, Hungary (2011)[14] and The Dohme Lecture, The Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore (2010).

In January 2010 he was created a Knight Bachelor for Services to Science. In 2013 he was awarded the Ernst Jung Gold Medal for Medicine (Ernst Jung Prize).

Personal life

He was married to Dorys Lemus, a biochemistry teacher at the Medical School in El Salvador. The marriage resulted in two children, Claudia Regina (born 1966 – a G.P. who lives in London) and Salvador Ernesto (1972–1982). On 5 April 1998, in London, he married Princess Marie-Esméralda of Belgium. They have two children, Alexandra Leopoldine (born in London on 4 August 1998) and Leopoldo Daniel (born in London on 21 May 2001), and two grandchildren.

References

  1. ^ "Pr Sir Salvador Moncada | The University of Manchester". www.research.manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 December 2013. Retrieved 5 August 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "New Director for Institute of Cancer Sciences". The University of Manchester. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
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  5. PMID 9832478
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  7. ^ Eldridge, S. "Paper prizes". The Guardian, Tuesday 20 November 2001
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  9. ^ "He's had 68,889 namechecks..." Times Higher Education (THE). 29 April 2005. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
  10. ^ Roberto Valencia (2007) Inicio platicando. "Una vida útil (El perfil de un centroamericano de otro mundo: Salvador Moncada)" Archived 13 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ "Honduras nombra a científico como embajador en China". LA NACION (in Spanish). 3 June 2023. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
  12. ^ "Sir Salvador Moncada FMedSci FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 8 October 2015.
  13. ^ IT, Desarrollado con webControl CMS por Intermark. "Santiago Grisolía y Salvador Moncada – Premiados – Premios Princesa de Asturias". Fundación Princesa de Asturias. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
  14. ^ "Debrecen Award for Molecular Medicine". University of Debrecen. Retrieved 7 January 2015.

External links

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