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Gail E. Besner
Gail E. Besner (Gail Ellen Besner) is an American pediatric surgeon-scientist, chief of Pediatric Surgery at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, known for discovering the growth factor HB-EGF.
Gen‐Sheng Feng
Gen-Sheng Feng (冯根生) is a molecular biologist known for discovering the signaling enzyme Shp2 and showing it can suppress liver cancer rather than promote it.
George Thomas (molecular biologist)
George Thomas is an American molecular biologist known for purifying and cloning S6K1 and S6K2, kinases downstream of mTORC1, and for work linking S6K1 to obesity and diabetes.
Georges Barski
Georges Barski (1909–1985) was a Polish-born French biologist who discovered somatic cell hybridization at the Institut Gustave-Roussy in Villejuif, a technique that later enabled gene mapping and monoclonal antibodies.
Gordon Sato
Gordon Sato, also known as Gordon H. Sato, was an American cell biologist who pioneered serum-free cell culture and later led the Manzanar Project in Eritrea.
Graham Carpenter
Graham Carpenter is Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University who joined Stanley Cohen's EGF program, helped characterize the epidermal growth factor receptor in 1978, and studied ErbB receptor signaling.
Gregg L. Semenza
Gregg L. Semenza, born 1956 in New York, is an American physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins known for discovering HIF-1 and sharing the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
H. Criss Hartzell
H. Criss Hartzell (Harrison Hartzell Jr.) is a cell biologist who spent his career at Emory University studying ion channels, especially the ANO/TMEM16 chloride channel family.
Harry N. Antoniades
Harry N. Antoniades was a molecular biologist at Harvard University who moved from studying insulin in diabetic blood to isolating and sequencing platelet-derived growth factor, PDGF.
Haruo Saito
Haruo Saito (斎藤 春雄) is a Japanese molecular biologist and University of Tokyo professor known for defining the yeast HOG osmosensing pathway and mammalian stress kinase cascades.
Harvey F. Lodish
Harvey F. Lodish, also known as Harvey Lodish, is an American molecular biologist at MIT and the Whitehead Institute who cloned the erythropoietin receptor and leads the textbook Molecular Cell Biology.
Harvey R. Herschman
Harvey R. Herschman, also published as Harvey Herschman, is an American molecular biologist at UCLA known for cloning the COX-2 gene and identifying the EGF receptor.
Henry Harris (cell biologist)
Henry Harris (1925–2014) was a British cell biologist at Oxford, born in Russia and raised in Australia, known for cell fusion work and showing malignancy can be recessive.
Henry R. Bourne
Henry R. Bourne (Henry Reid Bourne, 1940–2023) was an American pharmacologist and cell biologist at UCSF known for showing how G proteins transmit hormone-receptor signals.
Hiroshi Takeshima
Hiroshi Takeshima (竹島 浩) is a Japanese molecular biologist and professor at Kyoto University until 2026, known for cloning the ryanodine receptor and discovering TRIC channels essential for calcium release.
Howard Schulman
Howard Schulman is a molecular biologist known for four decades of work on CaMKII, an enzyme implicated in memory storage, and a Stanford professor of pharmacology and neurobiology.
Isaac Edery
Isaac Edery is a molecular biologist and Rutgers University professor who studies circadian clocks and sleep-wake behavior in the fruit fly Drosophila, based at CABM in Piscataway, New Jersey.
Isha Himani Jain
Isha Himani Jain, also published as Isha H. Jain, is a biologist at UCSF, Gladstone Institutes, and Arc Institute who showed breathing low-oxygen air can treat mitochondrial disease.
Ivan Đikić
Ivan Đikić, born 1966 in Zagreb, is a Croatian molecular biologist who directs the Institute of Biochemistry II at Goethe University Frankfurt and studies ubiquitin signaling and selective autophagy.
Jacopo Meldolesi
Jacopo Meldolesi (1937–2026) was an Italian cell biologist and pharmacologist who studied secretion, calcium signaling, and extracellular vesicles, holding pharmacology chairs at the University of Milan and San Raffaele.
James D. Lechleiter
James D. Lechleiter is a cell biologist at UT Health San Antonio known for his discovery of spiral calcium waves inside cells, and a co-founder of Astrocyte Pharmaceuticals.
James P. Whitlock
James P. Whitlock (1942–2023) was a physician and Stanford professor of molecular pharmacology known for showing how dioxin, the toxic contaminant in Agent Orange, acts on cells.
James R. Woodgett
James R. Woodgett is a Canadian molecular biologist known for isolating the GSK-3, Akt, and JNK kinase genes and leading the Terry Fox Research Institute.
Jared E. Toettcher
Jared E. Toettcher is a molecular biologist and Associate Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University who studies cell signaling and engineers light-sensitive proteins to control pathways with optogenetics.
Jean-Claude Martinou
Jean-Claude Martinou is a Swiss molecular and cell biologist known for work on cell death and mitochondrial metabolism, and for identifying the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier.
Jeffery D. Molkentin
Jeffery D. Molkentin is an American molecular cardiologist who directs molecular cardiovascular biology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital and defined the calcineurin-NFAT pathway in cardiac hypertrophy.
Jeffrey L. Wrana
Jeffrey L. Wrana, also known as Jeff Wrana, is a molecular biologist and Senior Investigator at Toronto's Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, known for defining TGFβ signaling through Smad proteins.
Jeffrey Rathmell
Jeffrey C. Rathmell is an American immunologist known for establishing T cell immunometabolism; he became chair of cancer research at the University of Chicago in 2025.
Jeremy Thorner
Jeremy Thorner is an American biochemist at UC Berkeley known for research on signal transduction in budding yeast, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.
Jessica E. Treisman
Jessica E. Treisman is a molecular biologist and professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine who studies how cells communicate during development using the fruit fly visual system.