Life scientists

L.S. Beese

L.S. Beese, or Lorena S. Beese, is a structural biochemist at Duke University who determines the 3D structures of enzymes that replicate and repair DNA.

Lafayette Mendel (1872–1935) was an American biochemist who spent his career at Yale, where his rat feeding experiments with Thomas Osborne proved some amino acids are essential and helped identify vitamin A.

Lajos Ferenczy

Lajos Ferenczy (1930–2004) was a Hungarian microbiologist at the University of Szeged who first achieved controlled protoplast fusion in eukaryotic microorganisms and led its microbiology department.

Lajos Pusztai

Lajos Pusztai is a breast medical oncologist and Professor of Medicine at Yale University, known for applying gene-expression profiling to breast cancer and leading I-SPY adaptive trials.

Lamberto Maffei

Lamberto Maffei is an Italian neuroscientist, Emeritus Professor of Neurobiology at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, who studies visual cortex plasticity and served as President of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei from 2009 to 2015.

Lan Bo Chen

Lan Bo Chen (陈良博) is a Taiwan-born cell biologist, a Harvard pathology professor and Dana-Farber researcher elected to Academia Sinica in 1996, known for work on fibronectin.

Lana Garmire

Lana X. Garmire is an American computational biologist known for bioinformatics methods in single-cell transcriptomics and cancer genomics, who received a Presidential Early Career Award in the 2017 cohort.

Lance A. Liotta

Lance A. Liotta, also known as Lance Liotta, is an American cancer researcher and bioengineer who co-invented Laser Capture Microdissection and directs George Mason University's proteomics center.

Lani F. Wu

Lani F. Wu is a systems biologist and professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at UCSF since 2014 who studies cellular individuality and drug resistance, co-founding Nine Square Therapeutics.

Larry A. Feig

Larry A. Feig is a molecular biologist and professor at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, known for discovering calcium-activated Ras-GRF exchange factors and studying inherited stress effects.

Larry Abbott

Larry Abbott is an American theoretical neuroscientist, the William Bloor Professor at Columbia University, known for recurrent neural network models, spike-timing dependent plasticity, and the dynamic clamp.

Larry Gerace

Larry Gerace is a cell biologist and professor at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, known for work on the nuclear lamina and transport between the nucleus and cytoplasm.

Larry J. Shapiro

Larry J. Shapiro is an American pediatrician and human geneticist, dean of Washington University School of Medicine from 2003 to 2015, known for research on X and Y chromosome genetics.

Larry Kedes

Larry Kedes, born Laurence H. Kedes, was an American molecular geneticist who isolated the first protein-coding gene from an animal cell and helped found GenBank.

Larry R. Jones

Larry R. Jones, also cited as L. R. Jones, is an American cardiac molecular biologist and physician-scientist, Charles Fisch Professor Emeritus of Cardiology at the Indiana University School of Medicine.

Larry R. Rohrschneider

Larry R. Rohrschneider was an American cell biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle who showed that Src and other oncoproteins act at cell adhesion sites.

Larry R. Squire

Larry R. Squire, born 1941 in Iowa, is an American cognitive neuroscientist at UC San Diego who studies how memory is organized in the brain, including declarative memory.

Larry Simpson

Larry Simpson is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UCLA who discovered guide RNAs and worked out uridine insertion and deletion RNA editing in trypanosome mitochondria.

Larry Stein

Larry Stein (1931–2019) was an American behavioral pharmacologist known for the catecholamine hypothesis of reinforcement and the first behavioral demonstrations of enkephalins' analgesic and rewarding effects.

Larry W. McLaughlin

Larry W. McLaughlin (1950–2023) was an American chemist who studied nucleic acid chemistry, first at the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen, then for 34 years at Boston College.

Lars Björck

Lars Björck is a Swedish infection-medicine researcher and professor at Lund University, known for the IgG-degrading enzyme IdeS and the bacterial proteins protein G and protein L.

Lars Chıttka

Lars Chittka is a German zoologist and professor at Queen Mary University of London, known for research showing bees can learn, count, and may have emotions.

Lars Ernster

Lars Ernster (Ernster László; 1920, Budapest – 1998, Stockholm) was a Hungarian-born Swedish biochemist who made Stockholm University a leading center of mitochondrial bioenergetics and served on the Nobel Committee for Chemistry.

Lars Steinmetz

Lars M. Steinmetz is a geneticist who leads research groups at EMBL Heidelberg and Stanford, where he is Professor of Genetics and Co-Director of the Stanford Genome Technology Center.

Lars‐Oliver Essen

Lars-Oliver Essen is a German structural biologist who has been professor of structural biochemistry at Philipps-Universität Marburg since 2001, known for crystal structures of DNA photolyases and microbial photoreceptors.

Lasse Lindahl

Lasse Lindahl is a molecular biologist who showed that ribosomal protein L4 represses its own synthesis in E. coli, and later studied yeast ribosome biogenesis at UMBC.

László Nagy (Hungarian physician-scientist)

László Nagy (Laszlo Nagy) is a Hungarian physician-scientist known for work on nuclear hormone receptors and macrophage epigenetics, including landmark 1998 Cell papers on PPARγ.

Làszlò Tora

Laszlo Tora is a Hungarian-born molecular biologist and CNRS research director who leads a group at the IGBMC in Strasbourg studying transcription initiation, the TFIID complex, and chromatin.

Laura A. Johnston

Laura A. Johnston is an American molecular biologist at Columbia University known for showing that Myc controls organ size through cell competition in fruit flies.