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Eran Segal

Eran Segal is an Israeli computational biologist, born in Tel Aviv in 1973, who is a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science known for personalized nutrition research.

Eran Sharon

Eran Sharon is an Israeli experimental physicist and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for experiments on dynamic brittle fracture and the shaping of elastic sheets.

Eran Zahavi (ערן זהבי)

Eran Zahavi (ערן זהבי), born 1987, Israeli centre-forward; played for Hapoel Tel Aviv, Palermo, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Guangzhou R&F, PSV Eindhoven; 74 Israel caps, 35 goals; retired January 2026.

Eran Zinman

Eran Zinman is an Israeli software entrepreneur who co-founded monday.com with Roy Mann in Tel Aviv in 2012, serving as CTO until 2020 and Co-CEO since.

Eranda Paka

Eranda Paka (Eraṇḍa pāka) is an official Ayurvedic semisolid avaleha confection of castor (Ricinus communis) cooked with milk, sugar, ghee, and herbs, from Yogratnakara, AFI Part II 3:3, dose 5–15 g, used for Vata disorders and constipation.

ERAP1

ERAP1 (ERAAP, ARTS-1), endoplasmic reticulum aminopeptidase 1, is an IFN-γ-induced M1 aminopeptidase that trims MHC-I peptide precursors via a molecular ruler preferring 9–16-residue substrates with hydrophobic C termini; a disease-associated polymorphic enzyme distinct from ERAP2.

ERAP2

ERAP2 (endoplasmic reticulum aminopeptidase 2, LRAP) is a human 5q15 zinc aminopeptidase trimming MHC-I peptide precursors; splice-site SNP rs2248374 silences it in ~25% of people, and haplotype A links to autoimmunity and Black Death survival.

Érard de la Marck

Érard de la Marck (1472–1538) was prince-bishop of Liège from his election in 1505 until his death, remembered for rebuilding the capital and building the prince-bishop's palace.

Eraring power station

Eraring power station is a black coal-fired power station on Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia. It supplies about 25% of the state's electricity.

ERAS trial

ERAS trial (NCT05511194): single-blind randomized trial of a modified Enhanced Recovery After Surgery protocol for pediatric complicated appendicitis in Guadalajara, Mexico; 40 children; shorter stay (3.15 vs 5.20 days) without added morbidity.

ERAS-0015

JYP0015 (ERAS-0015, JYP-0015) is an oral pan-RAS molecular glue from Guangzhou JOYO Pharma, licensed to Erasca, in Phase 1/2 trials for RAS-mutant pancreatic, lung, and colorectal cancers.

ERAS-4001

ERAS-4001 is Erasca's oral pan-KRAS inhibitor, in-licensed from Medshine Discovery, that binds mutant and wild-type KRAS while sparing HRAS/NRAS; it is in the BOREALIS-1 Phase 1 trial (NCT07021898) for KRAS-mutant solid tumors, with monotherapy data expected in H2 2026.

Erasca, Inc.

Erasca, Inc. is a San Diego-based clinical-stage precision oncology company, incorporated in Delaware on July 2, 2018, developing therapies for RAS/MAPK-driven cancers and trading on Nasdaq as ERAS.

Erased (manga)

Erased (Boku dake ga Inai Machi, 僕だけがいない街) is Kei Sanbe's 2012-2016 Young Ace mystery manga about Satoru Fujinuma, whose Revival time-rewind sends him to 1988 to stop a child killer; adapted by A-1 Pictures, filmed, and published in English by Yen Press.

Eraser

An eraser, also called a rubber eraser, is a rubber or plastic tool that removes pencil marks from paper; it is called a "rubber" in British English.

Eraser (film)

Eraser (1996) is a Chuck Russell action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as WITSEC marshal John Kruger protecting whistleblower Vanessa Williams from arms-dealer traitor James Caan; $101M domestic gross, mixed reviews, railgun set pieces.

Eraserhead

Eraserhead is David Lynch's 1977 black-and-white debut feature, starring Jack Nance as Henry Spencer. Shot 1971-1976 at AFI stables, it became a midnight-movie cult classic with Alan Splet's industrial sound design.

Eraserheads

Eraserheads, also known as E-heads, is a Filipino rock band formed in Quezon City in 1989, widely regarded as among the most influential acts in Original Pilipino Music.

Erasistratus

Erasistratus of Iulis on Ceos was a Greek physician and anatomist active in the first half of the 3rd century BC, a leading innovator of early Hellenistic medicine in Alexandria.

Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (1469–1536), Dutch Renaissance humanist, first published editor of the Greek New Testament and author of The Praise of Folly; known for Christian humanism and his 1524 free-will debate with Martin Luther.

Erasmus Darwin

Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802), English physician, poet, inventor, and Lunar Society founder; grandfather of Charles Darwin. Proposed evolution from 'one living filament' in Zoonomia (1794–96) and wrote The Botanic Garden; declined George III as patient.

Erasmus Hall High School

Erasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn, founded as Erasmus Hall Academy in 1786 and opened 1787, is among the oldest US schools and the first chartered by NY Regents; landmarked, now the Erasmus Educational Campus with alumni like Barbra Streisand.

Erasmus MC

Erasmus MC (Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam) is the university medical center of Erasmus University Rotterdam, formed in 2002-2003 from Dijkzigt Hospital, Sophia Children's Hospital, the Daniel den Hoed Clinic, and the medical faculty; the Netherlands' largest medical research center.

Erasmus Montanus

Erasmus Montanus, full title Erasmus Montanus eller Rasmus Berg, is a comedy in five acts by Ludvig Holberg, satirizing a student's empty Latin disputations and rural ignorance; it ranks among his best-known plays.

Erasmus Programme

Erasmus Programme (Erasmus+ since 2014), the EU's student-exchange scheme founded in 1987, now covering education, training, youth, and sport; over €26 billion for 2021-2027, 33 countries, 6.2 million participants 2014-2020, UK rejoining January 2027.

Erasmus Sarcerius

Erasmus Sarcerius, born Erasmus Schürer and writing as Annaemontanus, was a German Lutheran theologian and church organizer who opposed the Augsburg Interim and died in Magdeburg in 1559.

Erasto B. Mpemba

Erasto B. Mpemba (1950–2023) was a Tanzanian game warden and scientist who, as a schoolboy in 1963, discovered the Mpemba effect: hot water can freeze faster than cold.

Erastus H. Lee

Erastus H. Lee (1916–2006) was a British-born mechanician who taught at Brown, Stanford, and Rensselaer, known for plasticity and viscoelasticity research, including Lee's decomposition, and elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Erasure (novel)

Erasure (2001) is Percival Everett's satirical novel about Thelonious "Monk" Ellison, a Black experimental novelist whose parody of ghetto literature, My Pafology, written as Stagg R. Leigh, becomes a bestseller; adapted into the Oscar-winning 2023 film American Fiction.

Erasure coding

Erasure coding, also called forward error correction, is a data protection technique that splits data into data and parity blocks so lost fragments can be rebuilt from survivors.