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Researchers in molecular and cell biology

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Wilhelm Guschlbauer

Wilhelm Guschlbauer, born in Paris in 1932, is a molecular biologist and nucleic-acid chemist known for work on triple- and four-stranded DNA structures and the Dam methylase of E. coli.

Wilhelm Krek

Wilhelm Krek (1962–2018) was an Austrian-born molecular biologist, professor of cell biology at ETH Zurich from 2003, known for work on E2F-1 and cancer metabolism.

William A. Prinz

William A. Prinz is an American cell biologist known for work on membrane contact sites and nonvesicular lipid trafficking, and chair of cell biology at UT Southwestern.

William C. Earnshaw

William C. Earnshaw is an American cell biologist at the University of Edinburgh who identified the first centromere proteins and discovered the chromosomal passenger complex.

William E. Balch

William E. Balch is a cell biologist and professor at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, since 1988, known for work on protein transport and folding.

William E. Hahn

William E. Hahn is a molecular biologist at the University of Colorado known for showing that the mouse brain expresses a far larger and more varied set of messenger RNAs than other organs.

William E. Timberlake

William E. Timberlake is a molecular geneticist who, working chiefly at the University of Georgia, identified the brlA, abaA, and wetA regulatory genes controlling asexual spore development in the fungus Aspergillus nidulans.

William F. Marzluff

William F. Marzluff is a molecular biologist at UNC-Chapel Hill known for working out how animal cells make and destroy the messenger RNA for histones.

William G. Dunphy

William G. Dunphy is the Grace C. Steele Professor of Biology at Caltech, where he studies cell cycle checkpoints and DNA replication, discovering Claspin and Treslin.

William H. Klein

William H. Klein (W. H. Klein) was a molecular biologist at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center whose 1993 Nature paper showed myogenin is essential for skeletal muscle.

William H. McClain

William H. McClain is a molecular biologist and emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for studies of transfer RNA structure, processing, and amino acid identity in bacteria.

William J. Snell

William J. Snell is an American cell biologist at the University of Maryland who studies gamete cell-cell fusion and ciliary signaling in the alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

William James Greenleaf

William James Greenleaf, also published as William J. Greenleaf, is a Stanford professor of genetics whose interdisciplinary research studies how the physical state of the genome controls gene regulation.

William M. Bonner

William M. Bonner is an American molecular biologist at the National Cancer Institute who discovered the histone variants H2AX and H2AZ and the DNA damage marker gamma-H2AX.

William P. Tansey

William P. Tansey is an American molecular biologist at Vanderbilt University who studies how the ubiquitin–proteasome system controls gene expression and how the MYC oncoprotein can be targeted in cancer.

William R. Brinkley

William R. Brinkley (1936–2020) was an American cell biologist known for the first detailed electron microscope images of the kinetochore, and a longtime dean at Baylor College of Medicine.

William R. Sellers

William R. Sellers is an American cancer biologist who directs the Broad Institute's Cancer Program, teaches at Harvard Medical School, and codiscovered EGFR mutations in lung cancer.

William S. Dynan

William S. Dynan is an American molecular biologist known for discovering the transcription factor Sp1 in 1983 and identifying the Ku protein as the regulatory subunit of DNA-dependent protein kinase.

William T. Garrard

William T. Garrard is an American molecular biologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center known for research on immunoglobulin gene chromatin and nuclear matrix attachment regions.

William Vainchenker

William Vainchenker (born 1947) is a French biologist and Inserm research director at Institut Gustave Roussy, known for identifying the JAK2 V617F mutation in myeloproliferative diseases.

William Wickner

William T. Wickner is an American cell biologist and biochemist, professor at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine, known for reconstituting yeast vacuole membrane fusion from purified components.

Winship Herr

Winship Herr is an American molecular biologist known for his work on HCF-1 in herpesvirus gene expression, with a career at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and the University of Lausanne.

Winston Salser

Winston Salser was an American molecular biologist, a UCLA professor from 1968 to 2002 who sequenced rabbit α-globin mRNA, and the founding President of Amgen in 1980.

Witold Filipowicz

Witold Filipowicz, born 1943, is a Polish-born biochemist and molecular biologist known for characterizing human Dicer and microRNA function, leading a group at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel from 1984 to 2012.

Wolfgang Seufert

Wolfgang Seufert is a German molecular biologist who holds the Chair of Genetics at the University of Regensburg, known for work on ubiquitin-dependent cyclin proteolysis in budding yeast.

Wolfgang Wintermeyer

Wolfgang Wintermeyer is a German molecular biologist known for quantitative kinetic work on ribosomal translation, especially how elongation factor G and GTP hydrolysis drive tRNA movement.

Wolfgang Zachariae

Wolfgang Zachariae is a cell biologist who leads the Laboratory of Chromosome Biology at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, studying how protein destruction controls chromosome segregation.

Wolfhard Almers

Wolfhard Almers is a cell biologist and biophysicist known for discovering the fusion pore in exocytosis; he is Professor Emeritus at the Vollum Institute, OHSU.

Wolfram Hörz

Wolfram Hörz (1944–2005) was a German molecular biologist and professor at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München known for establishing the yeast PHO5 promoter as a model of chromatin-regulated gene expression.

Won-Do Heo

Won-Do Heo (허원도) is a South Korean cell signaling researcher and professor of biological sciences at KAIST who develops optogenetics tools that control proteins with light.