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Gunther Hartmann

Gunther Hartmann (born 1966) is a German physician and immunologist who studies how the innate immune system detects nucleic acids, directing an institute at University Hospital Bonn since 2007.

Gunther S. Stent

Gunther S. Stent, born Günter Siegmund Stensch, was a German-born American molecular biologist and neurobiologist at UC Berkeley who studied bacterial viruses and the leech nervous system.

Günther Schütz

Günther Schütz (1940–2020) was a German molecular biologist who studied steroid hormone gene regulation and headed a division at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg.

Guo-li Ming

Guo-li Ming (明国莉) is a neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies human brain development using stem cells and brain organoids, including Zika virus research.

Guo‐Min Li

Guo-Min Li is a molecular biochemist and DNA mismatch repair researcher who reconstituted human mismatch repair from purified proteins and directs the Chinese Institute for Cancer Research in Beijing.

Guojie Zhang

Guojie Zhang (张国捷) is a Chinese genomicist and evolutionary biologist who leads the Bird 10,000 Genomes project and has been a chair professor at Zhejiang University since 2022.

Guoping Feng

Guoping Feng is an MIT neuroscientist who studies how synapses fail in psychiatric disease, known for the SAPAP3 OCD mouse model and SHANK3 autism gene therapy.

Gürol M. Süel

Gürol M. Süel is an American-based molecular biologist who is Professor of Molecular Biology at UC San Diego, known for discovering ion channel-mediated electrical signaling in bacterial biofilms.

Gustaf Retzius

Gustaf Retzius (1842–1919) was a Swedish anatomist and histologist, professor at Karolinska Institutet, remembered for his nervous system and inner-ear research and the Cajal–Retzius cell.

Gustav Albert Schwalbe

Gustav Albert Schwalbe (1844–1916) was a German anatomist and anthropologist, professor at Strasburg, known for Schwalbe's line in the eye and for arguing Neanderthals were a distinct extinct species.

Gustav E. Lienhard

Gustav E. Lienhard (1938–2026) was an American biochemist and longtime Dartmouth professor who traced how insulin signals cells to take up glucose via the transporter GLUT4.

Gustav Embden

Gustav Embden (1874–1933) was a German physiological chemist who, as professor at the University of Frankfurt from 1914, developed liver perfusion and proposed the first coherent scheme for glycolysis, the Embden–Meyerhof–Parnas pathway.

Gustav Fritsch

Gustav Theodor Fritsch (1838–1927) was a German anatomist and anthropologist who, with Eduard Hitzig, published the first experimental demonstration in 1870 that electrical stimulation of the cerebral cortex produces movement.

Gustav Jirikowski

Gustav Jirikowski is a neuroanatomist and neuroendocrinologist whose 1992 experiment at Scripps reversed diabetes insipidus in rats with injected vasopressin mRNA, cited by the 2023 Nobel Assembly.

Gustav von Hüfner

Gustav von Hüfner (1840–1908) was a German chemist, professor of organic and physiological chemistry at Tübingen from 1875, remembered for determining hemoglobin's oxygen-binding capacity, the Hüfner number.

Gustavo D. Aguirre

Gustavo D. Aguirre is a veterinary ophthalmologist and medical geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania, known for canine gene-therapy research underlying the FDA-approved retinal gene therapy Luxturna.

Gustavo Deco

Gustavo Deco is an Argentine-born physicist and computational neuroscientist, an ICREA Research Professor and Catedrático at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, known for whole-brain models of resting-state brain activity.

Guy A. Orban

Guy A. Orban is a Belgian visual neuroscientist, emeritus professor at KU Leuven known for work on 3D shape and action representation in primate visual cortex.

Guy de Thé

Guy de Thé, full name Guy Blaudin de Thé (1930–2014), was a French virologist at the Institut Pasteur whose cohort studies established Epstein–Barr virus as a cause of Burkitt's lymphoma.

Guy Marrian

Guy Frederic Marrian (1904–1981) was a British biochemist who isolated pregnanediol and crystalline oestriol from pregnancy urine, developed the Kober Test, and held chairs at Toronto and Edinburgh.

Guy Rouleau (neurologist)

Guy Rouleau is a Canadian neurologist and neurogeneticist, Chair of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University, known for identifying more than 20 disease-causing genes in brain disorders.

Guy S. Salvesen

Guy S. Salvesen is a biochemist and Professor Emeritus at Sanford Burnham Prebys in La Jolla, California, known for his research on caspases, the proteases that execute programmed cell death.

Gwendalyn J. Randolph

Gwendalyn J. Randolph is an American immunologist at Washington University School of Medicine who studies how immune cells and lipoproteins leave tissues through lymphatic vessels.

Gwyneth Card

Gwyneth Card is an American neuroscientist, an HHMI Investigator since 2022, and chair of neuroscience at Columbia, known for studying how fruit flies select escape behaviors.

Gynheung An

Gynheung An (안진흥) is a South Korean plant molecular biologist, professor at Kyung Hee University's Crop Biotech Institute, who built a large rice T-DNA mutant resource and biofortified rice with iron and zinc.

György Buzsáki

György Buzsáki, born in Kaposvár, Hungary in 1949, is a Hungarian-born American neuroscientist at NYU known for hippocampal oscillations and the two-stage model of memory consolidation.

György Hajnóczky

György Hajnóczky, trained in medicine at Semmelweis University in Budapest, is a professor at Thomas Jefferson University who directs its Mitochondrial Research Center and studies mitochondrial calcium signaling.

H. Bentley Glass

H. Bentley Glass (1906–2005) was an American geneticist known for research on radiation-induced mutation and human gene flow, and editor of The Quarterly Review of Biology.

H. Boyd Woodruff

Harold Boyd Woodruff, known as Boyd Woodruff, was an American industrial microbiologist whose soil-actinomycete screening at Rutgers under Selman Waksman helped launch the antibiotic era.

H. Carl Haywood

H. Carl Haywood (Herbert Carlton Haywood) was an American developmental and educational psychologist who studied motivation, intellectual disability, and assessment at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College.