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Iain D. Campbell

Iain D. Campbell (1941–2014) was a British biophysicist at Oxford who pioneered protein NMR spectroscopy in the UK and solved the first such protein structure there, epidermal growth factor, in 1987.

Iain D. Couzin

Iain D. Couzin is a biologist who studies how animal groups such as fish schools and locust swarms move and decide together, directing the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Konstanz.

Iain M. Cheeseman

Iain M. Cheeseman is an American cell biologist, a Whitehead Institute core member and MIT professor who studies the kinetochore, the protein assembly that segregates chromosomes during cell division.

Iain McInnes

Iain B. McInnes is a Scottish rheumatologist at the University of Glasgow known for research and clinical trials in inflammatory arthritis, and president of EULAR from 2019 to 2021.

Iain W. Mattaj

Iain W. Mattaj, also known as I.W. Mattaj, is a Scottish biochemist born in 1952, known for work on RNA transport between the nucleus and cytoplasm.

Ian A. Graham

Ian A. Graham is a British plant biochemist at the University of York known for breeding high-yielding Artemisia that enabled over 60 million antimalarial treatments.

Ian C. Eperon

Ian C. Eperon is a British molecular biologist and Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Leicester who studies how pre-mRNA splice sites are chosen.

Ian G. Macara

Ian G. Macara is a cell biologist who has chaired Cell and Developmental Biology at Vanderbilt since 2012, known for work on Par polarity proteins, spindle orientation, and cancer.

Ian Holt

Ian Holt is a mitochondrial DNA researcher and Ikerbasque Research Professor in Donostia, Spain, known for identifying the first genetic cause of a mitochondrial disease.

Ian J. Deary

Ian J. Deary, born 1954, is a Scottish differential psychologist at the University of Edinburgh who founded the Lothian Birth Cohort studies and pioneered cognitive epidemiology, linking intelligence to health.

Ian J. MacRae

Ian J. MacRae is a structural biologist and professor at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for the first crystal structure of human Argonaute2.

Ian J. Russell

Ian J. Russell is a neuroscientist and Fellow of the Royal Society who studied cochlear hair cells, hearing, and noise-induced hearing loss at the Universities of Sussex and Brighton.

Ian Jack

Ian Jack was a virologist and epidemiologist at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, known for studies establishing how cytomegalovirus is transmitted, including the 1972 report identifying CMV in human milk.

Ian Maze

Ian Maze is a chromatin biologist and neuroscientist, HHMI Investigator, and professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for discovering histone monoaminylation.

Ian Parker (physiologist)

Ian Parker is a British-born scientist known for work on calcium signaling, especially the discovery of localized calcium release events called "puffs", and a professor emeritus at UC Irvine.

Ian Phillips (medical microbiologist)

Ian Phillips (born 10 April 1936) is a British medical microbiologist who studied antibiotic resistance at St Thomas' Hospital and delivered the 1997 Garrod Lecture.

Ian R. Sanders

Ian R. Sanders is a biologist and full professor at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, known for showing that mycorrhizal fungi exchange genes and shape plant biodiversity and productivity.

Ian Read Gibbons

Ian Read Gibbons (1931–2018) was an English-born biologist who discovered and named dynein, the motor protein that powers cilia and flagella, and shared the 2017 Shaw Prize.

Ian T. Baldwin

Ian T. Baldwin, born 1958 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is an American chemical ecologist who directed the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena from 1996 to 2020.

Ian Wilmut

Ian Wilmut was a British embryologist who led the Roslin Institute team that created Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell, in 1996.

Iannis Aifantis

Iannis Aifantis is a cancer biologist and Hermann M. Biggs Professor of Pathology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, known for work on T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia and myeloid leukemias.

Iannis Talianidis

Iannis Talianidis is a molecular biologist and AXA Chair in Epigenetics at IMBB-FORTH in Crete, known for work on chromatin, liver development, and liver cancer.

Ichio Shimada

Ichio Shimada is a Japanese structural biologist who was a professor at the University of Tokyo and led a RIKEN laboratory, using NMR spectroscopy to study GPCRs and membrane proteins.

Ichiro Hirao

Ichiro Hirao (平尾一郎) is a Japanese synthetic biologist known for unnatural base pairs that expand the genetic alphabet; his group made the first transcribable artificial base pair in 2002.

Ichiro Yahara

Ichiro Yahara (矢原 一郎) is a Japanese cell biologist who studied lymphocyte receptor mobility at Rockefeller University and led stress protein research at Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science.

Ido Amit

Ido Amit is an Israeli immunologist at the Weizmann Institute who developed MARS-seq and related single-cell RNA sequencing technologies, applying them to immunity in cancer, autoimmunity, and neurodegeneration.

Ido Golding

Ido Golding is a biological physicist and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign known for measuring gene expression and viral infection inside individual bacterial cells.

Igal Szleifer

Igal Szleifer is an Argentina-born biomedical engineer who holds the Christina Enroth-Cugell chair at Northwestern University, known for molecular modeling of protein adsorption and chromatin.

Ignacio Tinoco, Jr.

Ignacio Tinoco, Jr. (1930–2016) was an American chemist and biophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley, described as a founding father of molecular biophysics for pioneering RNA structure methods.

Igor Adameyko

Igor Adameyko (Игорь Адамейко) is a developmental biologist who is professor and department chair at the Medical University of Vienna and leads a group at Karolinska Institutet.