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Researchers in neuroscience

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Olle Lindvall

Olle Lindvall is a Swedish neurologist and neuroscientist at Lund University who led its Parkinson's cell transplantation program and showed that stroke triggers new neuron formation.

Oscar Marín

Óscar Marín (born 1971) is a Spanish neuroscientist who studies how cerebral cortex circuits are assembled, focusing on inhibitory interneurons, and directs the Centre for Developmental Neurobiology at King's College London.

Oskar Hansson

Oskar Hansson, born 1975, is a Swedish neurologist and professor of neurology at Lund University, known for the p-tau217 blood test for early Alzheimer's diagnosis.

Oswald Steward

Oswald Steward is a UC Irvine neuroscientist and founding director of the Reeve-Irvine Research Center, known for discovering local protein synthesis in neurons and winning the 2026 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience.

P. Jeffrey Conn

P. Jeffrey (Jeff) Conn is an American neuropharmacologist, emeritus professor at Vanderbilt University, who founded its Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery and pioneered allosteric modulators for brain disorders.

P. Robin Hiesinger

P. Robin Hiesinger, full name Peter Robin Hiesinger, is a German neurobiologist at Freie Universität Berlin who studies how the fruit fly brain wires itself.

P.N.R. Usherwood

P.N.R. Usherwood, also known as Peter N.R. Usherwood, is a neurophysiologist at the University of Nottingham who established L-glutamate as the excitatory transmitter at the insect neuromuscular junction.

Palmer W. Taylor

Palmer W. Taylor is an American pharmacologist at UC San Diego, founding dean of its pharmacy school, known for decades of work on acetylcholine signaling.

Pankaj Sah

Pankaj Sah is an Australian neuroscientist who has directed the Queensland Brain Institute since 2015 and is known for work on the amygdala's role in learning and memory.

Paola Arlotta

Paola Arlotta is an Italian-born American developmental neuroscientist, the Golub Family Professor at Harvard, who pioneered human brain organoids and chimeroids and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.

Pascal Fries

Pascal Fries, born 1972, is a neuroscientist known for the communication-through-coherence hypothesis, built from recordings in visual cortex, leading research groups in Frankfurt and Tübingen.

Pascal Ravassard

Pascal Ravassard is a French neuroscientist, first author of the 2013 Science study showing hippocampal place cells can measure distance, cited in the 2014 Nobel Prize background.

Pascal S. Kaeser

Pascal S. Kaeser, also published as Pascal Kaeser, is a Swiss-born physician-scientist and Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School who studies active zones and dopamine release.

Pasko Rakic

Pasko Rakic, also known as Pasko Rakić, is an American developmental neuroscientist at Yale who discovered how cortical neurons are generated and migrate, winning the 2008 Kavli Prize.

Pat R. Levitt

Pat R. Levitt is an American neuroscientist at the University of Southern California known for the neurodevelopmental model of schizophrenia and a developmental disconnection model of autism.

Patricia C. Salinas

Patricia C. Salinas is an Argentine cellular neurobiologist, Professor at University College London since 2006, known for showing that Wnt signaling directs synapse formation in the brain.

Patricia F. Maness

Patricia F. Maness is an American neuroscientist who spent her faculty career at UNC Chapel Hill and showed that Src-family kinases and neural cell adhesion molecules guide developing axons.

Patricia S. Goldman‐Rakic

Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic (1937–2003) was an American cognitive neuroscientist who, working with rhesus monkeys at Yale from 1979, established the cellular basis of working memory in the prefrontal cortex.

Patrick Aubourg

Patrick Aubourg is a French pediatric neurologist and Inserm researcher whose work on X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy spans the 1990 bone-marrow transplant report to 2024 gene-therapy results.

Patrick Cavanagh

Patrick Cavanagh (born 1947) is a Canadian vision scientist known for research on visual perception, attention, and motion, with professorships at Harvard, Dartmouth, and the Université de Montréal.

Patrick Doherty (neuroscientist)

Patrick Doherty is a molecular neuroscientist and Emeritus Professor at King's College London, at King's from 1990, known for work on neural cell adhesion molecules and the enzymes that synthesize 2-AG.

Patrick Emery

Patrick Emery is a chronobiologist and professor of neurobiology at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts, known for discovering cryptochrome's role in circadian rhythms.

Patrick F. Chinnery

Patrick F. Chinnery is a British neurologist and neurogeneticist at Cambridge known for work on mitochondrial DNA disorders, and Executive Chair of the Medical Research Council.

Patrick Haggard

Patrick Haggard is a British cognitive neuroscientist, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, whose 2002 paper introduced the intentional binding effect linking voluntary actions to their outcomes.

Patrik Verstreken

Patrik Verstreken (born 1974) is a Belgian molecular neurobiologist who studies how synapses work and break down in Parkinson's disease, directing the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research.

Paul F. Worley

Paul F. Worley is an American neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins known for identifying neuronal immediate early genes, including Homer, and studying the molecular basis of memory.

Paul Frankland

Paul Frankland is a Canadian neuroscientist and University of Toronto professor at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, known for research on memory consolidation, engrams, and forgetting.

Paul Garrity

Paul A. Garrity is a biology professor at Brandeis University who studies the molecular sensors and neural circuits insects use to detect temperature, humidity, and chemicals.

Paul Greengard

Paul Greengard (1925–2019) was an American neuroscientist at Rockefeller University who won the 2000 Nobel Prize for showing that dopamine acts by adding phosphate groups to proteins.

Paul H. Patterson

Paul H. Patterson (1943–2014) was an American neuroscientist and developmental biologist at Caltech who created the first maternal-infection mouse models of schizophrenia and autism and showed mature neurons can change neurotransmitter identity.