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Igor B. Dawid

Igor B. Dawid (1935–2024) was an American molecular and developmental biologist at Carnegie and NIH known for showing that extra DNA in frog eggs is mitochondrial DNA.

Igor Jurišica

Igor Jurišica is a Slovak-trained computational biologist and University of Toronto professor at the Krembil Research Institute who models protein-protein interaction networks and created the Integrated Interactions Database.

Igor L. Medintz

Igor L. Medintz is a Senior Scientist for Biosensors and Biomaterials at the US Naval Research Laboratory, known for quantum dot bioconjugates and FRET biosensing.

Igor Tamm

Igor Tamm (1922–1995) was an Estonian-born American virologist and cell biologist at The Rockefeller University who pioneered chemical inhibition of virus replication, using benzimidazole compounds such as DRB.

Igor Ulitsky

Igor Ulitsky is an Israeli molecular biologist and professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for showing that some long noncoding RNAs are functionally conserved across vertebrates.

Igor V. Grigoriev

Igor V. Grigoriev is a molecular biologist who leads the Fungal and Algal Program at the DOE Joint Genome Institute in Berkeley, known for sequencing fungal and algal genomes.

Ihor R. Lemischka

Ihor R. Lemischka (1953–2017) was an American stem cell biologist who proved a single hematopoietic stem cell can rebuild the blood system and led Mount Sinai's Black Family Stem Cell Institute.

Ikuko Hara‐Nishimura

Ikuko Hara-Nishimura is a Japanese plant molecular biologist known for identifying VPE as an executor of plant programmed cell death and for discovering the peptide hormone Stomagen.

Ikuro Abe

Ikuro Abe (阿部 郁朗) is a Japanese natural products chemist and enzymologist who led the Laboratory of Natural Products Chemistry at The University of Tokyo from 2009 to 2026.

Ilan Chet

Ilan Chet (born 1939 in Haifa) is an Israeli microbiologist and emeritus Hebrew University professor who pioneered biological control of soilborne plant diseases with Trichoderma fungi, winning the Israel and Wolf Prizes.

Ilan Davis

Ilan Davis is a cell and molecular biologist studying how messenger RNA is positioned in cells, Professor of Spatial Molecular Biology at the University of Glasgow since 2023.

Ilana Witten

Ilana Witten is a systems neuroscientist at Princeton University who studies dopamine and striatal circuits in reward learning and decision making, and an HHMI investigator since 2024.

Ilaria Rebay

Ilaria Rebay is an American developmental geneticist and professor at the University of Chicago, known for her 1991 Cell paper mapping the Notch receptor's ligand-binding EGF repeats.

Ileana M. Cristea

Ileana M. Cristea is the Henry L. Hillman Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University, known for work at the interface of virology and proteomics.

Ilho Ha

Ilho Ha is a molecular biologist who, as a postdoc in Gary Ruvkun's lab at Massachusetts General Hospital, coauthored the 1993 Cell paper on microRNA lin-4.

Iliyan D. Iliev

Iliyan D. Iliev is a Bulgarian-born immunologist and Professor of Immunology in Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, known for linking gut fungi to colitis and cancer outcomes.

Ilme Schlichting

Ilme Schlichting, born 1960 in Kiel, is a German biophysicist known for time-resolved crystallography and director at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research since 2002.

Ilya Bezprozvanny

Ilya Bezprozvanny (Илья Безпрозванный; born 1965) is a neuroscientist studying calcium signaling in neurodegenerative disease, long a professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

Ilya J. Finkelstein

Ilya J. Finkelstein is a professor of molecular biosciences at the University of Texas at Austin who studies CRISPR-Cas systems and DNA repair using single-molecule imaging.

Ilya Mechnikov

Ilya Mechnikov, also known as Élie Metchnikoff, was a Russian-born zoologist and immunologist who discovered phagocytosis and shared the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Paul Ehrlich.

Ilya Raskin

Ilya Raskin is a plant biologist and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University known for establishing salicylic acid as a plant defense signal and for work on phytoremediation.

In-Hyun Park

In-Hyun Park (박인현) is a South Korean stem cell biologist and Yale genetics professor known for generating some of the first human induced pluripotent stem cells.

Inder M. Verma

Inder M. Verma is an Indian-born American molecular biologist at the Salk Institute who pioneered viral vectors for gene therapy and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1997.

Indra K. Vasil

Indra K. Vasil is an Indian-born plant biotechnologist at the University of Florida known for regenerating cereals from single cells and creating the first transgenic wheat.

Inês Barroso

Inês Barroso is a human geneticist studying the genetics of type 2 diabetes, obesity, and glycaemic traits, and Professor of Diabetes at the University of Exeter.

Ingo H. Greger

Ingo H. Greger is a cellular and molecular neuroscientist who leads a research group in the Neurobiology Division of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, studying AMPA glutamate receptors.

Ingolf Bach

Ingolf Bach is a molecular biologist and professor at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School who studies LIM domain cofactors, including RLIM/Rnf12 in X chromosome inactivation.

Ingrid Grummt

Ingrid Grummt is a German molecular cell biologist known for her work on ribosomal RNA transcription and epigenetics, based at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg.

Inhwan Hwang

Inhwan Hwang (황인환) is a South Korean plant molecular biologist and professor at POSTECH since 1999, known for identifying AKR2A, a targeting factor essential for chloroplast biogenesis.

Iñigo Martincorena

Iñigo Martincorena, also written Inigo Martincorena, is a Spanish group leader at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge who studies somatic mutation in normal tissues, cancer, and aging.