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Innate and adaptive immunology

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Fiona Powrie

Dame Fiona Powrie, born 1963, is a British immunologist who directs the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology at Oxford and studies regulatory T cells and IL-23 in inflammatory bowel disease.

Foo Y. Liew

Foo Y. Liew, known as Eddy Liew, is an immunologist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Glasgow who showed that nitric oxide kills engulfed pathogens.

Francis Carbone

Francis Carbone is an Australian immunologist, a professor at the University of Melbourne and the Peter Doherty Institute known for research on T cell selection and cross-presentation.

Francisco Juan Martínez Mojica

Francisco Juan Martínez Mojica, known as Francis Mojica, is a Spanish microbiologist at the University of Alicante who recognized CRISPR as a bacterial immune system.

Frederick M. Ausubel

Frederick M. Ausubel is an American molecular geneticist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital known for studies of host-microbe interactions and innate immunity.

Frederick P. Siegal

Frederick P. Siegal (F. P. Siegal) is an American clinical immunologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, known for describing some of the first AIDS cases in 1981.

Gabriel Nunez

Gabriel Núñez is an American immunologist and physician, the Paul H. De Kruif Professor of Pathology at the University of Michigan, known for identifying Nod-like receptors and linking NOD2 mutations to Crohn's disease.

Gabriel Victora

Gabriel D. Victora is a Brazilian-born immunologist who heads the Laboratory of Lymphocyte Dynamics at Rockefeller University, studying how germinal centers refine antibodies during infection and vaccination.

Galit Alter

Galit Alter is an immunologist who developed Systems Serology, a method for profiling antibody function, and later joined Moderna as Vice President of Immunology Research.

Ganes C. Sen

Ganes C. Sen, also published as Ganes Sen, is a molecular biologist known for five decades of interferon research; at Yale he identified the antiviral enzymes PKR and RNase L.

Georg Stingl

Georg Stingl is an Austrian dermatologist and immunologist whose laboratory showed how imiquimod destroys basal cell carcinoma via dendritic cells, and who led phase 3 brodalumab psoriasis trials.

George Hajishengallis

George Hajishengallis (Georgios Hajishengallis) is an immunologist and periodontal researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, known for the keystone pathogen hypothesis and for linking periodontitis to systemic inflammatory disease.

Greg M. Delgoffe

Greg M. Delgoffe is an American immunologist at the University of Pittsburgh who studies how metabolism controls T cell fate and function, especially inside tumors.

Gunther Hartmann

Gunther Hartmann (born 1966) is a German physician and immunologist who studies how the innate immune system detects nucleic acids, directing an institute at University Hospital Bonn since 2007.

Hans D. Ochs

Hans D. Ochs is a pediatric immunologist and professor at the University of Washington and Seattle Children's Hospital, known for identifying genes causing primary immunodeficiency diseases, including FOXP3.

Hans G. Boman

Hans G. Boman (1924–2008) was a Swedish microbiologist who discovered the inducible antibacterial immune response in Drosophila in 1972 and characterized cecropin, work credited as foundational for innate immunity research.

Hans Hengartner

Hans Hengartner is a Swiss immunologist and professor emeritus at the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, known for work on immunological tolerance and cell-mediated killing.

Hans J. Müller‐Eberhard

Hans J. Müller-Eberhard (1927–1998) was a German-born molecular immunologist who defined the complement system's proteins, established its alternative pathway, and linked complement defects to paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria.

Harry L. Malech

Harry L. Malech, born Harry Lewis Malech, is an American immunologist at NIAID who has led gene therapy for chronic granulomatous disease since 1991, including first-in-human prime-edited stem cell therapy.

Harvey R. Colten

Harvey R. Colten (1939–2007) was an American pediatric immunologist who showed that complement proteins are made outside the liver and identified surfactant protein B deficiency in newborns.

Hedda Wardemann

Hedda Wardemann is a German immunologist who heads the Division of B Cell Immunology at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, known for single-cell studies of human B cell tolerance and malaria antibodies.

Henrique Veiga-Fernandes

Henrique Veiga-Fernandes is a Portuguese immunologist who leads the Immunophysiology Laboratory at the Champalimaud Foundation in Lisbon, known for showing how nerves, diet, and microbes are sensed by immune cells.

Herman Friedman

Herman Friedman was an American immunologist known for work on immune RNA transfer and viral immunosuppression, who chaired microbiology at the University of South Florida.

Hiroshi Takayanagi

Hiroshi Takayanagi (高柳 広), born 1965, is a Japanese immunologist and University of Tokyo professor who founded osteoimmunology and received the 2019 Japan Academy Prize for that work.

Iain McInnes

Iain B. McInnes is a Scottish rheumatologist at the University of Glasgow known for research and clinical trials in inflammatory arthritis, and president of EULAR from 2019 to 2021.

Ira Mellman

Ira Mellman is an American cell biologist and cancer immunologist, President of Research at the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, who discovered endosomes and conceptualized the Cancer-Immunity Cycle.

Irun Cohen

Irun R. Cohen, born 1937 in Chicago, is an Israeli immunologist and emeritus professor at the Weizmann Institute known for T-cell vaccination, the immunological homunculus, and DiaPep277.

Israel Pecht

Israel Pecht (Hebrew: ישראל פכט), born 1937, is an Israeli chemical immunologist and Professor Emeritus at the Weizmann Institute, known for mast-cell signaling research and leading FEBS and IUPAB.

Ivaylo I. Ivanov

Ivaylo I. Ivanov, known informally as Ivo Ivanov, is a Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Columbia University who studies how gut bacteria shape T cell immunity.

J. Magarian Blander

Julie Magarian Blander is an Armenian American immunologist who studies how the innate immune system detects microbes and cell death, holding an endowed professorship at Weill Cornell Medicine since 2016.