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Laura M. Machesky
Laura M. Machesky is an American-born cell biologist, known for the first description of the Arp2/3 complex, who became Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry at Cambridge in 2022.
Laura Mackay
Laura K. Mackay is an Australian immunologist known for her work on tissue-resident memory T cells, and is the inaugural Sir Gustav Nossal Professor of Immunology at WEHI.
Laura Marie Boykin
Laura Marie Boykin, also published as Laura Boykin Okalebo, is a computational biologist who uses genomics to help sub-Saharan African farmers control whiteflies devastating cassava.
Laura P.W. Ranum
Laura P.W. Ranum is a neurogeneticist who directs the Center for NeuroGenetics at the University of Florida and identified mutations for SCA8, DM2, and SCA5.
Laurence A. Boxer
Laurence A. Boxer (1940–2017) was an American pediatric hematologist and oncologist at the University of Michigan whose research defined modern knowledge of neutrophil biology and phagocyte disorders.
Laurence A. Turka
Laurence A. Turka is an American transplant immunologist and physician-scientist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital whose laboratory first showed that blocking CD28 signals prevents allograft rejection.
Laurence D. Hurst
Laurence D. Hurst is a British evolutionary geneticist, Professor of Evolutionary Genetics at the University of Bath since 1997 and founding Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution.
Laurence H. Kedes
Laurence H. Kedes, known as Larry, was an American molecular biologist who cloned the first protein-coding gene from an animal cell and founded USC's Institute for Genetic Medicine.
Laurence H. Pearl
Laurence H. Pearl is a British structural biologist, Professor at the University of Sussex, known for solving the Hsp90 chaperone structure and Hsp90 cancer inhibitors.
Laurence H. Tecott
Laurence H. Tecott is an American neuroscientist and psychiatrist, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, known for linking serotonin receptor subtypes to appetite, obesity, and anxiety.
Laurence Jay Korn
Laurence Jay Korn is a molecular biologist known for his work on Xenopus 5S ribosomal RNA gene transcription at Stanford University and for founding the biotech company Protein Design Labs.
Laurence O. Trussell
Laurence Trussell is a neuroscientist and professor at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, known for his 2001 Nature work on presynaptic glycine receptors in the auditory brainstem.
Laurens Gerhard Marinus Baas Becking
Laurens Gerhard Marinus Baas Becking (1895–1963) was a Dutch botanist and microbiologist known for the dictum "everything is everywhere, but the environment selects" and for articulating geobiology.
Laurent Excoffier
Laurent Excoffier is a Swiss population geneticist and professor emeritus at the University of Bern, known for the Arlequin software and genomic studies of how humans settled Europe.
Laurent Keller
Laurent Keller, born 1961, is a Swiss evolutionary biologist and University of Lausanne professor known for discovering the fire ant social chromosome, a supergene controlling colony organization.
Laurent Nguyen
Laurent Nguyen is a Belgian neurobiologist at the University of Liège who studies how the cerebral cortex is built, leading the Laboratory of Molecular Regulation of Neurogenesis.
Lauri Saxén
Lauri Saxén (1927–2005) was a Finnish developmental biologist and professor of experimental pathology at the University of Helsinki, known for work on embryonic induction and kidney organogenesis.
Laurie A. Boyer
Laurie A. Boyer is Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering at MIT who studies cardiac cell fate, first-authoring the 2005 embryonic stem cell circuitry paper and discovering Braveheart.
Laurie E. Comstock
Laurie E. Comstock is a microbiologist and Professor of Microbiology at the University of Chicago who studies Bacteroidales, the most abundant Gram-negative bacteria of the human intestine.
Laurie Glimcher
Laurie H. Glimcher is an American immunologist who served as president and CEO of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute from 2016 to 2024, and previously was dean of Weill Cornell Medicine.
Laurinda A. Jaffe
Laurinda A. Jaffe is an American cell biologist who studies oocyte physiology and fertilization, and is Professor and Chair of Cell Biology at UConn Health, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.
Lawren Sack
Lawren Sack is a plant ecophysiologist and professor at UCLA's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, known for research on leaf hydraulics, venation, and drought tolerance.
Lawrence A. Chasin
Lawrence A. Chasin is a molecular biologist and Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, known for work on mammalian cell genetics, gene amplification, and pre-mRNA splicing.
Lawrence A. Klobutcher
Lawrence A. Klobutcher is a molecular biologist at UConn Health who studies genome remodeling in ciliated protozoa, including DNA elimination and frameshifting in Oxytricha and Euplotes.
Lawrence A. Loeb
Lawrence A. Loeb is an American biochemist and pathologist at the University of Washington, known for the mutator phenotype hypothesis of cancer and for developing Duplex Sequencing.
Lawrence Bogorad
Lawrence Bogorad (1921–2003) was an American plant molecular biologist and Harvard professor, a pioneer of chloroplast genetics who sequenced the first chloroplast genes and mapped chloroplast DNA.
Lawrence C Katz
Lawrence C Katz (1956–2005) was an American neuroscientist, James B. Duke Professor at Duke University, known for developing optical imaging and photostimulation to map developing brain circuits.
Lawrence Chan
Lawrence Chan, born in Hong Kong in 1942, is a physician-scientist at Baylor College of Medicine known for a 2003 gene therapy that reversed diabetes in mice.
Lawrence Corey
Lawrence Corey is an American virologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center who founded the HIV Vaccine Trials Network and led the US COVID-19 vaccine trials.
Lawrence E. Samelson
Lawrence E. Samelson is an American immunologist who spent his career at the NIH, discovered the TCR zeta chain and LAT, and shared the 2019 William B. Coley Award.