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Kristen Pleil
Kristen Pleil is an American neuroscientist and pharmacologist, Associate Professor of Pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medicine, who studies how sex and stress hormones regulate alcohol use in mice.
Kristin Scott
Kristin Scott is a neuroscientist and Professor Emerita at UC Berkeley known for characterizing the Gustatory Receptor gene family and how hunger and thirst act on fly taste circuits.
Kristina Sakers
Kristina Sakers, also published as Kristina Sakers Hays, is an American neuroscientist at HHMI in Durham, North Carolina, known for showing that astrocytes locally make proteins.
Kristján R. Jessen
Kristján R. Jessen, also published as Kristjan R. Jessen, is an Emeritus Professor at University College London known for landmark work on Schwann cells and enteric glia.
Krystyna Keleman
Krystyna Keleman is a Drosophila neurogeneticist who studies how learning is converted into long-term memory in fruit flies; she was a Group Leader at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus from 2013 to 2022.
Kuo-Fen Lee
Kuo-Fen Lee, born 1959 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, is a molecular neurobiologist and professor at the Salk Institute known for defining p75 neurotrophin receptor function through gene targeting.
Lamberto Maffei
Lamberto Maffei is an Italian neuroscientist, Emeritus Professor of Neurobiology at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, who studies visual cortex plasticity and served as President of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei from 2009 to 2015.
Larry Abbott
Larry Abbott is an American theoretical neuroscientist, the William Bloor Professor at Columbia University, known for recurrent neural network models, spike-timing dependent plasticity, and the dynamic clamp.
Larry R. Squire
Larry R. Squire, born 1941 in Iowa, is an American cognitive neuroscientist at UC San Diego who studies how memory is organized in the brain, including declarative memory.
Larry Stein
Larry Stein (1931–2019) was an American behavioral pharmacologist known for the catecholamine hypothesis of reinforcement and the first behavioral demonstrations of enkephalins' analgesic and rewarding effects.
Laura E. O'Dell
Laura E. O'Dell is an American behavioral neuroscientist and Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at El Paso who studies nicotine and alcohol addiction in vulnerable populations.
Laura P.W. Ranum
Laura P.W. Ranum is a neurogeneticist who directs the Center for NeuroGenetics at the University of Florida and identified mutations for SCA8, DM2, and SCA5.
Laurence H. Tecott
Laurence H. Tecott is an American neuroscientist and psychiatrist, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, known for linking serotonin receptor subtypes to appetite, obesity, and anxiety.
Laurence O. Trussell
Laurence Trussell is a neuroscientist and professor at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, known for his 2001 Nature work on presynaptic glycine receptors in the auditory brainstem.
Laurent Nguyen
Laurent Nguyen is a Belgian neurobiologist at the University of Liège who studies how the cerebral cortex is built, leading the Laboratory of Molecular Regulation of Neurogenesis.
Lawrence C Katz
Lawrence C Katz (1956–2005) was an American neuroscientist, James B. Duke Professor at Duke University, known for developing optical imaging and photostimulation to map developing brain circuits.
Lawrence S.B. Goldstein
Lawrence S.B. Goldstein is an American cell biologist and neuroscientist at UC San Diego known for discovering kinesin motor proteins and linking defective axonal transport to Alzheimer's disease.
Lawrence Salkoff
Lawrence Salkoff is Professor of Neuroscience and Genetics at Washington University in St. Louis, known for his 1981 Nature work genetically identifying the Drosophila Shaker potassium channel gene.
Lawrence Weiskrantz
Lawrence Weiskrantz (1926–2018) was an American-born British neuropsychologist, professor of psychology at Oxford from 1967 to 1993, who discovered blindsight and showed the amygdala's role in emotional behavior.
Leanne M. Williams
Leanne M. Williams is a Stanford psychiatrist and neuroscientist who founded its Center for Precision Mental Health and identified six brain-circuit biotypes of depression and anxiety.
Lennart Mucke
Lennart Mucke is a physician-scientist who founded and directs the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease in San Francisco and is a UCSF professor known for Alzheimer's research.
Leon Lagnado
Leon Lagnado is a neuroscientist, Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Sussex since 2013, known for pioneering optophysiology and imaging synapses in the zebrafish retina; elected FMedSci in 2014.
Leonard K. Kaczmarek
Leonard K. Kaczmarek is a neuroscientist and ion-channel biologist, Professor of Pharmacology at Yale School of Medicine, whose laboratory cloned the Kv3.1b and Slack potassium channels.
Leonardo Belluscio
Leonardo Belluscio is an American neuroscientist known for research on how the olfactory system forms and maintains its circuitry; he led a NINDS laboratory and joined HHMI in 2017.
Leonardo G. Cohen
Leonardo G. Cohen, also published as Leonardo Cohen, is a neurologist and Senior Investigator at NINDS, NIH, known for establishing non-invasive brain stimulation as a stroke rehabilitation strategy.
Leslie G. Ungerleider
Leslie G. Ungerleider was an American cognitive neuroscientist who led the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at NIMH and proposed the two-streams account of visual processing.
Leslie L. Iversen
Leslie Lars Iversen, known as Leslie Iversen, was a British neuropharmacologist (1937–2020) who advanced the study of neurotransmitters, led the MRC Neurochemical Pharmacology Unit and Merck neuroscience research, and became a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Leslie M. Thompson
Leslie M. Thompson is an American neuroscientist at UC Irvine who helped identify the Huntington's disease gene in 1993 and now leads a stem cell therapy trial for it.
Li Zhang
Li Zhang, professionally Li I. Zhang, is a systems neuroscientist and professor at the University of Southern California who studies how neural circuits generate perception and behavior.
Li-Huei Tsai
Li-Huei Tsai (蔡立慧) is a Taiwanese-born American neuroscientist, Picower Professor at MIT, known for CDK5, the epigenetics of memory loss, and 40 Hz gamma stimulation for Alzheimer's.