Researchers in immunology, microbiology, and virology

Fumio Imamoto

Fumio Imamoto (今本文男) is a Japanese molecular biologist known for work on the tryptophan operon, messenger RNA degradation, and transcription-translation coupling in E. coli.

G. Balakrish Nair

G. Balakrish Nair, born 1954, is an Indian microbiologist who discovered the cholera serogroup Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal and received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 1998.

George Gow Brownlee, known as G.G. Brownlee, is a British biochemist and emeritus professor at the University of Oxford known for discovering pseudogenes, cloning the factor IX gene, and pioneering influenza reverse genetics.

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.

Garnett Kelsoe

Garnett Kelsoe is an American immunologist, the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Immunology at Duke, known for germinal center and B cell tolerance research.

Gary A. Koretzky

Gary A. Koretzky is an American immunologist whose work on CD45 and adapter proteins like SLP-76 defined T cell receptor signaling; he became Cornell's vice provost for research in 2025.

Gary D. Wu

Gary D. Wu is an American physician-scientist and molecular biologist at the University of Pennsylvania known for linking long-term dietary patterns to gut microbial enterotypes.

Gary J. Nabel

Gary J. Nabel, also known as Gary Nabel, is an American virologist and immunologist known for DNA vaccines and HIV immunogen design, and CEO of ModeX Therapeutics.

Gary K. Schoolnik

Gary K. Schoolnik is a physician and Professor of Medicine, Emeritus, at Stanford, known for research on bacterial pili, adhesins, and the molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis.

Gary N. Calkins

Gary Nathan Calkins (1869–1943) was an American protozoologist at Columbia University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1919, known for his Paramecium aging experiments.

Gary W. Litman

Gary W. Litman is an American comparative immunologist at the University of South Florida who traces the evolutionary origins of immune genes in jawless and jawed vertebrates.

Gautam Dantas

Gautam Dantas is a microbiologist at Washington University in St. Louis known for research on antibiotic resistance genes in soil, animals, and the human gut.

Gene H. Stollerman

Gene H. Stollerman (1921–2014) was an American physician and medical researcher known for showing that monthly penicillin injections prevent rheumatic fever, and later a Boston University geriatrics leader.

Gene Tyson

Gene W. Tyson is an Australian microbial ecologist and bioinformatician at Queensland University of Technology, known for metagenomics and for CheckM, a widely used genome-quality tool.

Gene‐Wei Li

Gene-Wei Li is a quantitative molecular biologist at MIT who studies how bacterial genomes encode precise protein levels; he joined MIT in 2015 and became an HHMI investigator in 2024.

Gennaro De Libero

Gennaro De Libero is an immunologist known for his work on CD1- and MR1-restricted T cells and γδ T cells, and a professor at the University of Basel.

Genoveffa Franchini

Genoveffa Franchini is an Italian-born hematologist and retrovirologist who heads the Animal Models and Retroviral Vaccines Section at the National Cancer Institute, known for HIV vaccine research.

Geoffrey L. Smith

Geoffrey L. Smith is a virologist and professor at Oxford's Dunn School of Pathology, known for showing that vaccinia virus, the smallpox vaccine, evades immunity with secreted receptors.

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 A. Kassavetis

George A. Kassavetis is a molecular biologist at the University of California, San Diego, known for work on the enzymology of transcription initiation in phage T4 and yeast.

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George A.M. Cross

George A.M. Cross is a British molecular parasitologist, first to identify the variant surface glycoprotein family of Trypanosoma brucei, opening the molecular study of antigenic variation.

George Bruening

George Emil Bruening (1938–2023) was an American plant pathologist and molecular virologist at UC Davis, known for work on plant resistance to viral diseases and Pierce's disease of grapevines.

George C. Hill

George C. Hill (1939–2026) was an American microbiologist and medical educator at Vanderbilt University, known for first culturing the African sleeping sickness parasite and elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1998.

George Chaconas

George Chaconas is a Canadian molecular geneticist at the University of Calgary, a Canada Research Chair from 2003 to 2017, known for bacteriophage Mu transposition and the molecular biology of Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease spirochete.

George H. McCracken

George H. McCracken Jr. was a pediatric infectious diseases researcher at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas who shaped the diagnosis and antibiotic treatment of childhood meningitis.

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.