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Lennart Randau
Lennart Randau is a German microbiologist who studies RNA biology in prokaryotes, known for split tRNA genes in Nanoarchaeum equitans and the 2008 Nature paper "Life without RNase P".
Léo Guignard
Léo Guignard is a French computational developmental biologist known for whole-embryo light-sheet imaging of the mouse, the open-source cell-tracking tool MaMuT, and evidence that embryonic cell signaling can be governed by cell contact area.
Leo Lefrançois
Leo Lefrançois (1956–2013) was an American immunologist who chaired Immunology at the University of Connecticut and pioneered research on intestinal T cells and memory T-cell residence in tissues.
Leo Pardi
Leo Pardi (1915–1990) was an Italian zoologist and ethologist who, with Floriano Papi, showed sandhoppers find the sea by a sun compass, winning the 1989 Balzan Prize for Ethology.
Leon A. Heppel
Leon A. Heppel (1912–2010) was an American biochemist who pioneered RNA enzymology and developed the osmotic shock method for releasing enzymes from bacteria, working at NIH and Cornell.
Leon Avery
Leon Avery is a biologist who studies feeding, starvation, and behavior in the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans, working at UT Southwestern and later Virginia Commonwealth University.
León E. Rosenberg
León E. Rosenberg (1933–2022) was an American physician-scientist who defined the biochemical basis of inherited metabolic disorders and founded the first US human genetics department at Yale.
Leon Lagnado
Leon Lagnado is a neuroscientist, Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Sussex since 2013, known for pioneering optophysiology and imaging synapses in the zebrafish retina; elected FMedSci in 2014.
Leon Orbeli
Leon Orbeli (Լևոն Աբգարի Օրբելի, 1882–1958) was a Soviet physiologist, Pavlov's favorite student, founder of evolutionary physiology in the USSR, and the main target of the 1950 Pavlovian session.
Leon V. Kochian
Leon V. Kochian is an American plant scientist known for research on plant mineral nutrition and aluminum tolerance, who joined the University of Saskatchewan in 2016.
Leona Samson
Leona D. Samson is an American biologist known for her work on DNA repair and how cells respond to DNA alkylation damage, now professor emerita at MIT.
Leonard Amby Maynard
Leonard Amby Maynard (1887–1972) was an American nutrition scientist at Cornell University who wrote the textbook Animal Nutrition and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1944.
Leonard C. Harrison
Leonard C. Harrison is an Australian immunologist at WEHI in Melbourne known for insulin receptor research and nasal insulin vaccine trials for type 1 diabetes.
Leonard H. Rome
Leonard H. Rome is an American cell biologist at UCLA who co-discovered the vault, one of the largest ribonucleoprotein particles in the cell, in 1986.
Leonard I. Zon
Leonard I. Zon, also known as Leonard Zon, is an American hematologist and stem cell biologist who built the zebrafish into a genetic model of blood development and blood cancers.
Leonard J. Foster
Leonard J. Foster is a Canadian biochemist who directs the Life Sciences Institute at the University of British Columbia, known for quantitative proteomics, organelle mapping, and honeybee disease research.
Leonard J. Prins
Leonard J. Prins (born 1974) is a Dutch supramolecular chemist and Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Padua, Italy, known for chiral hydrogen-bonded assemblies and chemically fueled self-assembly.
Leonard Jarett
Leonard Jarett was an American pathologist who researched insulin action and chaired pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania from 1980 to 1998.
Leonard K. Kaczmarek
Leonard K. Kaczmarek is a neuroscientist and ion-channel biologist, Professor of Pharmacology at Yale School of Medicine, whose laboratory cloned the Kv3.1b and Slack potassium channels.
Leonard Lerman
Leonard Lerman (1925–2012) was an American molecular biologist who showed how acridine dyes intercalate into DNA and developed denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis for detecting single-base mutations.
Leonard P. Freedman
Leonard P. Freedman is a molecular biologist known for research on nuclear hormone receptors, chief science officer of the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research since 2018.
Leonardo Belluscio
Leonardo Belluscio is an American neuroscientist known for research on how the olfactory system forms and maintains its circuitry; he led a NINDS laboratory and joined HHMI in 2017.
Leonardo G. Cohen
Leonardo G. Cohen, also published as Leonardo Cohen, is a neurologist and Senior Investigator at NINDS, NIH, known for establishing non-invasive brain stimulation as a stroke rehabilitation strategy.
Leonhard Hess Stejneger
Leonhard Hess Stejneger was a Norwegian-born American ornithologist and herpetologist who spent more than 58 years at the Smithsonian, rising to head curator of biology.
Leonid Kruglyak
Leonid Kruglyak is a human geneticist and genomicist at UCLA, chair of its Human Genetics department, known for genetic mapping methods and pioneering eQTL studies.
Leonid Margolis
Leonid Margolis (Леонид Марголис; born 1948) is a virologist and immunologist who developed ex vivo human lymphoid tissue systems for studying HIV pathogenesis at NIH, later joining Ilia State University.
Leonid Mirny
Leonid Mirny is a biological physicist and MIT professor who models 3D genome folding; his loop extrusion hypothesis, that molecular motors fold DNA, was confirmed experimentally.
Leonid Sazanov
Leonid A. Sazanov, born in 1960, is a British structural biologist at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria known for the first atomic structures of respiratory complex I.
Leonidas C. Platanias
Leonidas C. Platanias (Greek: Λεωνίδας Πλατανιάς) is a Greek-born physician-scientist who studies cytokine signaling in leukemia and has directed Northwestern's Lurie Cancer Center since 2014.
Leonore A. Herzenberg
Leonore A. Herzenberg, also published as L. A. Herzenberg, is an American immunologist and geneticist who co-led Stanford's Herzenberg Laboratory for over 50 years and helped develop FACS flow cytometry.