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Alumnus Ferid Murad, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1998, receives a plaque recognizing this achievement from John Nilson, chair of pharmacology, while Murad was on campus in December to deliver a lecture on the research which earned him the Nobel Prize. The plaque hangs in a display in the pharmacology department, located on the third floor of the medical school. The display also notes the other two people affiliated with CWRU's pharmacology department who have won the Nobel Prize -- Earl Sutherland, former pharmacology chair, in 1972, and alumnus Alfred Gilman in 1994. Gilman and Murad graduated from the joint M.D./Ph.D. program in 1969 and 1965 respectively, and both received their Ph.D. degrees in pharmacology.