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moncada -lrb- right -rrb- with john vane in 1970s university college london tegucigalpa , honduras 3 december 1944 prostacyclin john vane and dr salvador moncada.jpg salvador moncada
 salvador moncada university in london , university of london of el salvador , royal college of surgeons
salvador moncada

sir salvador moncada , frs , frcp , fmedsci -lrb- born 3 december 1944 -rrb- is a honduran-british pharmacologist and professor .
he is currently the director of the institute of cancer sciences at the university of manchester .
in the past , he was the research director of the wellcome research laboratories from 1986 to 1995 and , until recently , the director of the ucl wolfson institute , which he established at university college london in 1996 .
his research interests include inflammation and vascular biology and he is currently working on the regulation of cell proliferation .
he gained notoriety for his discoveries related to nitric oxide function and metabolism , and his exclusion from the 1996 lasker award and the 1998 nobel prize in medicine .
he is the husband of princess marie-esméralda of belgium , who is a member of the belgian royal family .
