Biography
Moncada was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras to Salvador Moncada and Jenny Seidner on December 3, 1944 but moved to El Salvador in 1948. He studied medicine at the Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de El Salvador from 1962-1970. In 1971 he went to London to do a PhD with John Vane in the Department of Pharmacology in the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Royal College of Surgeons. After a short period of research in the University of Honduras he moved to the Wellcome Research Laboratories (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. 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). In 1998 he married HRH Princess Esmeralda of Belgium, youngest half-sister of King Albert II of the Belgians. They have two children, Alexandra Leopoldine (born 1998) and Leopoldo Daniel (born 2001).
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