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Lawrence J. Stern
Lawrence J. Stern is an American immunologist and Professor of Pathology at UMass Chan Medical School, known for determining the structure of the human MHC protein HLA-DR1.
Lawrence Rothfield
Lawrence I. Rothfield (1927–2022) was an American microbiologist and physician-scientist at the University of Connecticut Health Center known for defining how E. coli positions its division septum.
Lawrence S.B. Goldstein
Lawrence S.B. Goldstein is an American cell biologist and neuroscientist at UC San Diego known for discovering kinesin motor proteins and linking defective axonal transport to Alzheimer's disease.
Lawrence Salkoff
Lawrence Salkoff is Professor of Neuroscience and Genetics at Washington University in St. Louis, known for his 1981 Nature work genetically identifying the Drosophila Shaker potassium channel gene.
Lawrence Shapiro
Lawrence Shapiro is a structural biologist, professor of biochemistry at Columbia University, known for structural work on cadherin cell adhesion, retinal protocadherins, and the endocytic receptor LRP2.
Lawrence Weiskrantz
Lawrence Weiskrantz (1926–2018) was an American-born British neuropsychologist, professor of psychology at Oxford from 1967 to 1993, who discovered blindsight and showed the amygdala's role in emotional behavior.
Leah E. Cowen
Leah E. Cowen is a Canadian researcher in fungal pathogenesis and antimicrobial resistance, Vice-President Research at the University of Toronto and co-founder of Bright Angel Therapeutics.
Leanne M. Williams
Leanne M. Williams is a Stanford psychiatrist and neuroscientist who founded its Center for Precision Mental Health and identified six brain-circuit biotypes of depression and anxiety.
Lee Ho-wang
Lee Ho-wang (Ho Wang Lee, 1928–2022) was a Korean physician and virologist who identified Hantaan virus as the cause of Korean hemorrhagic fever and developed a licensed vaccine.
Lee M. Silver
Lee M. Silver, born 1952 in Philadelphia, is an American molecular biologist and geneticist, emeritus professor at Princeton, known for the mouse T/t complex and books on biotechnology.
Lee Niswander
Lee Niswander (Lee Ann Niswander) is an American developmental biologist known for research on limb development and neural tube closure, whose failure causes birth defects such as spina bifida.
Lee R. Berger
Lee R. Berger, known as Lee Berger, is an American-born South African paleoanthropologist at the University of the Witwatersrand who discovered Australopithecus sediba and led the Homo naledi excavation.
Lee Zou
Lee Zou is a molecular biologist who studies the DNA damage checkpoint, long at Harvard and Mass General, and chair of pharmacology and cancer biology at Duke since 2023.
Leemor Joshua-Tor
Leemor Joshua-Tor is an Israeli-born structural biologist and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, known for solving Argonaute's structure and identifying it as Slicer.
Leho Tedersoo
Leho Tedersoo (born 1980) is an Estonian mycologist and Professor of Mycorrhizal Studies at the University of Tartu, known for global studies of soil fungal diversity.
Lei Stanley Qi
Lei Stanley Qi, publishing as Lei S. Qi, is a Stanford bioengineer who invented the CRISPRi and CRISPRa methods for turning genes off and on without altering DNA.
Leif Andersson (geneticist)
Leif Andersson (born 1954) is a Swedish geneticist and genome biologist, professor at Uppsala University and Texas A&M University, who won the Wolf Prize in Agriculture in 2014.
Leif W. Ellisen
Leif W. Ellisen is an American medical oncologist at Harvard Medical School and Mass General Cancer Center, best known for his work on triple-negative breast cancer.
Leifu Chang
Leifu Chang is a structural biologist and professor of biological sciences at Purdue University whose laboratory uses cryo-EM to study CRISPR-associated transposons and anti-CRISPR systems.
Leigh Burgoyne
Leigh Alexander Burgoyne, born 1939, is an Australian molecular biologist and Emeritus Professor at Flinders University, co-discoverer of regular chromatin DNA digestion and inventor of FTA paper.
Leila Pirhaji
Leila Pirhaji is an Iranian-born computational systems biologist who developed PIUMet, a network-based method for interpreting metabolomics data, and founded the Cambridge, Massachusetts startup ReviveMed.
Leland H. Johnston
Leland H. Johnston was a yeast molecular geneticist at the National Institute for Medical Research in London, known for Nature papers on cell-cycle control of DNA synthesis genes.
Leland Ossian Howard
Leland Ossian Howard (1857–1950) was an American economic entomologist who led the US Bureau of Entomology for thirty-three years and was a leading authority on mosquitoes.
Lemuel Roscoe Cleveland
Lemuel Roscoe Cleveland (1892–1969) was an American zoologist and protozoologist, a Harvard professor and National Academy of Sciences member, who proved that termite gut protozoa digest the cellulose their hosts eat.
Len Neckers
Len Neckers, born Leonard M. Neckers (1949–2025), was a cancer researcher at the National Cancer Institute whose work established the chaperone Hsp90 as a drug target in cancer.
Len Stephens
Len Stephens, also known as Len R. Stephens, is a molecular biologist at the Babraham Institute near Cambridge known for defining how PI3K signaling works in neutrophils.
Lena Claesson-Welsh
Lena Claesson-Welsh is a Swedish vascular biologist and Professor of Medical Biochemistry at Uppsala University, known for mapping VEGF receptor signaling and vascular permeability, elected to EMBO in 2017.
Lennart Hammarström
Lennart Hammarström is a Swedish immunologist at Karolinska Institutet who has published more than 500 papers on primary immunodeficiencies and was the first chair of the ESID registry.
Lennart Mucke
Lennart Mucke is a physician-scientist who founded and directs the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease in San Francisco and is a UCSF professor known for Alzheimer's research.
Lennart Philipson
Lennart Philipson (1929–2011) was a Swedish molecular biologist and virologist known for adenovirus research, who led EMBL from 1982 to 1993 and founded the Skirball Institute in New York.