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Gonçalo Abecasis

Gonçalo Abecasis is a Portuguese-born statistical geneticist and University of Michigan biostatistics professor, known for the gene-mapping software Merlin and METAL and leading genomics at Regeneron.

Gonçalo Castelo-Branco

Gonçalo Castelo-Branco is a Swedish and Portuguese glial cell biologist, born in 1976, who is Professor of Glial Cell Biology at Karolinska Institutet and studies oligodendrocytes in multiple sclerosis.

Gongyi Zhang

Gongyi Zhang is a structural biologist and professor at National Jewish Health in Denver, known for crystal structures of bacterial RNA polymerase, TALL-1, and JMJD2 histone demethylases.

Gonzalo Cosa

Gonzalo Cosa is an Argentine-born chemist at McGill University, Professor and Chair of Chemistry since 2024, who designs fluorescent probes and single-molecule microscopy to visualize molecular processes one at a time.

Gonzalo E. Torres

Gonzalo E. Torres is a Chilean-born American neuroscientist who studies dopamine transporter regulation, applied to schizophrenia genetics and adolescent psychiatric vulnerability, and won the 2008 PECASE award.

Göran Akusjärvi

Göran Akusjärvi is a Swedish molecular biologist and virologist known for using human adenovirus to work out how RNA splicing is regulated; he retired from Uppsala University in 2024.

Göran Möller

Göran Möller (1936–2008) was a Swedish immunologist known for his work on B-cell activation and thymus-independent antigens, and for helping found the Scandinavian Society for Immunology in 1969.

Gord Fishell

Gord Fishell (Gordon Fishell) is a developmental neurobiologist, professor of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School since 2017 and a group leader at the Broad Institute.

Gordon D. Logan

Gordon D. Logan, also known as Gordon Logan, is a Canadian-born cognitive psychologist, Centennial Professor at Vanderbilt, known for the 1984 race model of response inhibition.

Gordon Dougan

Gordon Dougan is a microbiologist and genome scientist, a Senior Group Leader at the Wellcome Sanger Institute known for genomic work on drug-resistant typhoid and vaccine equity.

Gordon Fain

Gordon L. Fain is an American physiologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UCLA known for research on phototransduction, the conversion of light into electrical signals in retinal photoreceptors.

Gordon Fishell

Gordon Fishell is a neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023 for his work on inhibitory interneurons.

Gordon H. Bower

Gordon H. Bower was an American experimental psychologist and learning theorist who spent his 49-year career at Stanford University studying human associative memory and mood.

Gordon H. Dixon

Gordon H. Dixon (1930–2016) was a Canadian biochemist and molecular biologist who helped found the molecular study of spermatogenesis, best known for his protamine work in trout.

Gordon H. Orians

Gordon H. Orians (born 1932) is an American behavioral ecologist and professor emeritus of biology at the University of Washington, known for his studies of blackbirds, habitat selection, and mating systems.

Gordon J. Lithgow

Gordon J. Lithgow is an aging biologist and Professor at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in Novato, California, known for a 2011 study showing an amyloid-binding dye extends lifespan.

Gordon K. Smyth

Gordon K. Smyth is an Australian statistical bioinformatician who leads a laboratory at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, creating the widely used limma and edgeR packages.

Gordon L. Hager

Gordon L. Hager is an American molecular biologist who heads the Hormone Action and Oncogenesis Section at the National Cancer Institute, known for showing steroid receptors bind DNA dynamically.

Gordon M. Shepherd

Gordon M. Shepherd (1933–2022) was an American neuroscientist at Yale whose work on the olfactory bulb, brain microcircuits, and neurogastronomy shaped the study of smell.

Gordon M. Tomkins

Gordon M. Tomkins (1926–1975) was an American biochemist who helped found molecular endocrinology, showing how steroid hormone receptors regulate gene expression, and led molecular biology research at NIH before joining UCSF.

Gordon N. Gill

Gordon N. Gill (1937–2021) was an American endocrinologist who joined the University of California, San Diego faculty in 1969 and studied hormone action and signal transduction, especially EGF receptor trafficking.

Gordon Sato

Gordon Sato, also known as Gordon H. Sato, was an American cell biologist who pioneered serum-free cell culture and later led the Manzanar Project in Eritrea.

Gottfried Fraenkel

Gottfried Fraenkel (1901–1984) was a German-born entomologist and insect physiologist, professor at the University of Illinois, known for insect nutrition, the hormone bursicon, and founding chemical ecology.

Gottfried Schatz

Gottfried Schatz (1936–2015) was an Austrian-born biochemist who co-discovered mitochondrial DNA in 1964, worked out how proteins are imported into mitochondria, and taught at the University of Basel.

Gotthilft Studnitz

Gotthilft von Studnitz (1908–1994) was a German physician, physiologist, and zoologist known for research on retinal vision processes and a professorship at the University of Halle.

Gou Young Koh

Gou Young Koh (고유영) is a South Korean physician-scientist in vascular biology who directs the IBS Center for Vascular Research and is a distinguished professor at KAIST in Daejeon.

Gourisankar Ghosh

Gourisankar Ghosh is an Indian-born American structural biologist and professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UC San Diego, known for landmark crystal structures of the transcription factor NF-κB.

Grady F. Saunders

Grady F. Saunders is a molecular biologist at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, known for the 1991 positional cloning of the candidate aniridia gene, now called PAX6.

Graeme W. Davis

Graeme W. Davis is a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for establishing homeostatic synaptic plasticity, the study of how neurons stabilize their function.

Graeme Wistow

Graeme J. Wistow is a molecular biologist at the US National Eye Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, known for gene sharing, lens crystallin structure, and NEIBank.