Researchers in structural biology, biochemistry, and biophysics

Gabriel H. Travis

Gabriel H. Travis is an American vision scientist and physician, Professor of Ophthalmology at UCLA since 2001, known for identifying Rpe65 as the visual cycle's retinoid isomerase.

Gabriel Lander

Gabriel C. Lander is a structural biologist and Professor at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for cryo-electron microscopy studies of the proteasome and molecular glue degraders.

Gabriel Waksman (born 1957) is a structural biologist and biochemist at University College London and Birkbeck who determined the structures of the molecular machines bacteria use to transfer DNA, including antibiotic resistance genes.

Gabriele Varani

Gabriele Varani is an Italian structural biologist and NMR spectroscopist, a professor at the University of Washington known for RNA structure and RNA-targeted drug discovery.

Gebhard Schertler

Gebhard F. X. Schertler, born 1957, is an Austrian structural biologist known for determining structures of membrane proteins and G protein-coupled receptors like rhodopsin, and headed Biology and Chemistry at the Paul Scherrer Institute.

Geoffrey Chang

Geoffrey Chang is a structural biologist and professor at UC San Diego's Skaggs School of Pharmacy, known for x-ray structures of multidrug resistance transporters including P-glycoprotein and NorM.

Georg E. Schulz

Georg E. Schulz (1939–2026) was a structural biochemist at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg and the University of Freiburg who solved enzyme and membrane protein structures by X-ray crystallography.

Georg Nagel

Georg Nagel, born 1953 in Weingarten, Germany, is a German biophysicist who identified the light-gated channelrhodopsins, making optogenetics possible, and shares the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

George B. Benedek

George B. Benedek, also known as G. B. Benedek, was an American physicist and MIT professor who invented quasi-elastic light scattering spectroscopy and applied it to cataract and Alzheimer's research.

George D. Rose

George D. Rose is a biophysicist and Krieger-Eisenhower Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University, known for predicting protein chain turns from hydrophobicity and his 2006 backbone-based folding theory.

George H. Elder

George H. Elder is an Emeritus Professor of Medical Biochemistry at Cardiff University whose research defined the biochemistry and management of the porphyrias, inherited disorders of haem biosynthesis.

George H. Lorimer

George H. Lorimer is a biochemist who worked out the reaction mechanism of Rubisco, the enzyme that fixes carbon dioxide in photosynthesis, and helped discover GroE chaperonin protein folding.

George Joseph Popják

George Joseph Popják (1914–1998) was a Hungarian-born biochemist who, with John W. Cornforth, worked out the reactions forming squalene, the precursor of cholesterol, and pioneered radioisotopic studies of metabolism in Britain.

George P. Hess

George P. Hess (1922–2015) was an American biochemist who spent 60 years at Cornell University developing rapid chemical-kinetic techniques that made neurotransmitter receptors measurable on millisecond time scales.

George Weber (biochemist)

George Weber was a biochemist and physician at the Indiana University School of Medicine who founded the enzymology of cancer cells and developed the Molecular Correlation Concept.

Georges Mer

Georges Mer is a structural biologist and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who studies chromatin modifications in DNA damage repair.

Sep 17, 2026

Georgios Skiniotis

Georgios Skiniotis is a structural biologist known for cryo-EM structures of GPCR–G protein and β-arrestin complexes, who won the 2011 PECASE and joined St. Jude in 2024.

Sep 17, 2026

Gerald D. Fasman

Gerald D. Fasman was a Canadian-born American biochemist at Brandeis University who co-developed the Chou–Fasman method for predicting protein secondary structure from amino acid sequence.

Gerald Litwack

Gerald Litwack (1929–2023) was an American biochemist known for the 1971 ligandin discovery and for editing Vitamins and Hormones; he last taught at Texas A&M Health Science Center.

Gerhard Hummer

Gerhard Hummer (born 1966) is an Austrian theoretical biophysicist who has directed the Department of Theoretical Biophysics at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt since 2013.

Gerhard Klebe

Gerhard Klebe is a German chemist and structural biologist, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at the Philipps-Universität Marburg from 1996 to 2020, known for structure-based drug design and co-founding BioSolveIT.

Gerhard Meissner

Gerhard Meissner (1937–2021) was a German-born biochemist and biophysicist at UNC Chapel Hill known for purifying and reconstituting the ryanodine receptor, the skeletal muscle calcium release channel.

Gerhard Schmidt (biochemist)

Gerhard Schmidt (1901–1981) was a German-born American biochemist who spent over forty years at Tufts University School of Medicine, known for the Schmidt–Thannhauser method for measuring DNA and RNA.

Gerhard Schramm

Gerhard Schramm (1910–1969) was a German biochemist at the Max Planck Institute for Virus Research in Tübingen who showed in 1956 that RNA is tobacco mosaic virus's genetic material.

Gerhard Wagner (biophysicist)

Gerhard Wagner, born 1945, is a Harvard Medical School biophysicist known for protein NMR spectroscopy, where he has been a professor since 1990 and developed triple-resonance NMR methods.

Gerty Cori

Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz, was an Austro-Hungarian-born American biochemist at Washington University who shared the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for glycogen research.

Gianluigi Veglia

Gianluigi Veglia is a biochemist and biophysicist, a professor at the University of Minnesota since 2000, known for NMR studies of membrane proteins and protein kinases.

Gijs Wuite

Gijs J. L. Wuite is a Dutch molecular biophysicist and professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam who studies single-molecule DNA–protein interactions and co-founded the instrument company LUMICKS in 2014.

Sep 17, 2026

Gina M. MacDonald

Gina M. MacDonald is an American biochemist and Associate Professor of Chemistry at James Madison University, a 1999 PECASE recipient who studies nucleotide binding and protein function.