Life scientists

Insuk Lee

Insuk Lee (이인석) is a South Korean computational biologist who leads the Network Biology Lab at Yonsei University in Seoul, known for HumanNet and network-based gene function prediction.

Iosif Isaevich Gitel'son (1928–2022) was a Soviet and Russian biophysicist who founded the Krasnoyarsk school of biophysics, led the BIOS-3 closed life-support system, and won the Lomonosov Gold Medal.

Iqbal Hamza

Iqbal Hamza (born 1968) is an Indian-born American molecular biologist at the University of Maryland whose laboratory identified HRG-1, the first known eukaryotic heme importer.

Ira B. Black

Ira B. Black was an American neuroscientist who converted bone marrow stem cells into nerve cells and founded the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey in 2004.

Ira G. Wool

Ira G. Wool (1925–2012) was an American biochemist and physician at the University of Chicago whose insulin research opened the study of the eukaryotic ribosome.

Ira Green

Ira Green is an immunologist at the National Institutes of Health's Laboratory of Immunology in Bethesda, Maryland, whose 1974 study traced nodular lymphoma to follicular B lymphocytes.

Ira Herskowitz

Ira Herskowitz (1946–2003) was an American molecular geneticist at the University of California, San Francisco, who worked out how baker's yeast switches mating type and how yeast cells divide asymmetrically.

Ira M. Hall

Ira M. Hall is an American geneticist known for mapping structural variation in human genomes; he is Professor of Genetics and Director of the Yale Center for Genomic Health.

Ira Mellman

Ira Mellman is an American cell biologist and cancer immunologist, President of Research at the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, who discovered endosomes and conceptualized the Cancer-Immunity Cycle.

Irene Bozzoni

Irene Bozzoni is an Italian molecular biologist who studies RNA metabolism and non-coding RNAs in cell differentiation and disease, Full Professor at Sapienza University of Rome since 1994.

Irene Miguel-Aliaga

Irene Miguel-Aliaga is a geneticist and physiologist, trained in Barcelona and at Oxford, who studies organ plasticity and gut-brain signaling, and is a Royal Society Fellow.

Irina Artsimovitch

Irina Artsimovitch is a microbiologist and professor at The Ohio State University who studies how bacterial and viral RNA polymerases synthesize RNA and how small molecules regulate that synthesis.

Irina Kareva

Irina Kareva is a theoretical biologist and applied mathematician who models cancer as an evolving ecosystem, works in quantitative systems pharmacology, and also sings with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus.

Irma Thesleff

Irma Thesleff is a Finnish developmental biologist at the University of Helsinki who trained as a dentist and is known for research on signaling molecules regulating tooth development and renewal.

Irmgard Sinning

Irmgard Sinning (born 1960) is a structural biologist and biochemist, professor at Heidelberg University since 2000, known for protein targeting to membranes and the 2014 Leibniz Prize.

Irun Cohen

Irun R. Cohen, born 1937 in Chicago, is an Israeli immunologist and emeritus professor at the Weizmann Institute known for T-cell vaccination, the immunological homunculus, and DiaPep277.

Irvin S. Y. Chen

Irvin S. Y. Chen is a virologist and Distinguished Professor at UCLA, former Director of the UCLA AIDS Institute, who helped identify HTLV-II and develops gene therapy against HIV.

Irving B. Fritz

Irving B. Fritz (1927–1996) was an American physiologist and endocrinologist at the University of Toronto who won the 1980 Gairdner Award for carnitine research and pioneered Sertoli cell culture.

Irving H. Fox

Irving H. Fox is a Canadian-trained physician-biochemist known for purine metabolism research at McGill, Duke, Toronto, and the University of Michigan before joining the biotechnology industry in 1991.

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Irving H. Goldberg

Irving H. Goldberg was a biochemist at Harvard Medical School known for working out how enediyne antitumor antibiotics such as neocarzinostatin and C1027 recognize and destroy DNA.

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Irving Klotz

Irving Myron Klotz (1916–2005) was an American biochemist and protein chemist at Northwestern University, known for ligand-binding thermodynamics, protein subunit tables, and synthetic enzyme mimics called synzymes.

Irving Widmer Bailey

Irving Widmer Bailey (1884–1967) was an American plant anatomist who spent nearly six decades at Harvard University and became a central twentieth-century figure in the study of wood structure and plant evolution.

Irwin B. Levitan

Irwin B. Levitan is a neuroscientist known for showing that neurotransmitters change nerve cell activity by altering protein phosphorylation inside single neurons, and later Founding Chair of Neuroscience at Thomas Jefferson University in 2010.

Irwin Davidson

Irwin Davidson is a French-based molecular biologist and CNRS Research Director at the IGBMC in Illkirch, known for work on TFIID transcription factors and melanoma epigenetics.

Irwin Fridovich

Irwin Fridovich (1929–2019) was an American biochemist who spent his career at Duke University and discovered superoxide dismutase, the enzyme that defuses the superoxide radical in living cells.

Irwin Gunsalus

Irwin Gunsalus (1912–2008) was an American biochemist and enzymologist at the University of Illinois known for discovering lipoic acid and establishing pyridoxal phosphate as the coenzyme form of vitamin B6.

Irwin L. Goldknopf

Irwin L. Goldknopf, also recorded as Ira L. Goldknopf, is a biochemist who discovered protein A24 at Baylor College of Medicine, the first known covalent conjugate of ubiquitin with another protein.

Irwin Rose

Irwin Rose (1926–2015) was an American biochemist and enzymologist who shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for working out how cells tag proteins with ubiquitin for destruction.

Isaac Edery

Isaac Edery is a molecular biologist and Rutgers University professor who studies circadian clocks and sleep-wake behavior in the fruit fly Drosophila, based at CABM in Piscataway, New Jersey.