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Leor S. Weinberger
Leor S. Weinberger is an American virologist and systems biologist at the Gladstone Institutes and UC San Francisco, known for the HIV latency circuit and single-dose TIP antivirals.
Leroy Hood
Leroy Hood is an American biologist who developed the first automated fluorescent DNA sequencer at Caltech and co-founded the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle in 2000.
Leroy Stevens
Leroy Stevens (1920–2015) was an American developmental biologist at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, whose work on mouse teratomas laid the foundation for embryonic stem cells.
Leslie A. Grivell
Leslie A. Grivell, also published as L.A. Grivell, is a molecular biologist at the University of Amsterdam who studied yeast mitochondrial DNA and mitochondrial gene expression.
Leslie Birgit Vosshall
Leslie Birgit Vosshall is an American molecular neurobiologist at Rockefeller University, an HHMI Investigator since 2008, known for discovering insect odorant receptors and how mosquitoes find humans.
Leslie Clarence Dunn
Leslie Clarence Dunn (1893–1974) was an American geneticist, professor of zoology at Columbia University from 1928 to 1962, known for the T-locus in mice and for fighting scientific racism.
Leslie G. Ungerleider
Leslie G. Ungerleider was an American cognitive neuroscientist who led the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at NIMH and proposed the two-streams account of visual processing.
Leslie J. Berg
Leslie J. Berg is an American immunologist known for research on T cell receptor signaling and the kinase ITK, and chair of immunology at the University of Colorado since 2019.
Leslie L. Iversen
Leslie Lars Iversen, known as Leslie Iversen, was a British neuropharmacologist (1937–2020) who advanced the study of neurotransmitters, led the MRC Neurochemical Pharmacology Unit and Merck neuroscience research, and became a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Leslie M. Thompson
Leslie M. Thompson is an American neuroscientist at UC Irvine who helped identify the Huntington's disease gene in 1993 and now leads a stem cell therapy trial for it.
Leslie Wilson (cell biologist)
Leslie Wilson is an American cell biologist at UC Santa Barbara known for research on microtubule dynamics, including treadmilling, and how anticancer drugs act on them.
Lester F. Lau
Lester F. Lau is an American molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois Chicago, known for immediate early gene discovery and CCN1 wound-healing research.
Lester J. Reed
Lester J. Reed (1925–2015) was an American biochemist at the University of Texas at Austin known for first isolating lipoic acid and for work on pyruvate dehydrogenase regulation.
Levi A. Garraway
Levi A. Garraway is an American oncologist and cancer genomicist who is Chief Medical Officer at Roche, co-founded Foundation Medicine, and pioneered high-throughput tumor genome profiling.
Levon M. Khachigian
Levon M. Khachigian is an Australian molecular biologist at UNSW Sydney known for targeting immediate-early genes in vascular disease and developing the DNAzyme drug Dz13.
Lewis Kay
Lewis E. Kay is a Canadian molecular biophysicist at the University of Toronto and the Hospital for Sick Children who develops NMR methods for studying protein structure and dynamics.
Lewis L. Lanier
Lewis L. Lanier is an American immunologist known for seminal work on natural killer cells and a longtime professor at the University of California, San Francisco.
Lewis Ralph Jones
Lewis Ralph Jones (1864–1945) was an American plant pathologist who founded plant pathology at the University of Wisconsin and first led the American Phytopathological Society.
Lewis Stadler
Lewis Stadler (1896–1954) was an American maize geneticist at the University of Missouri and USDA geneticist, a pioneer of X-ray-induced mutation in plants and a National Academy of Sciences member.
Lewis T. Williams
Lewis T. ("Rusty") Williams is an American physician-scientist, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator from 1983 to 1993, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Lewis Terman
Lewis Terman (1877–1956) was an American psychologist at Stanford University who revised the Binet intelligence test into the Stanford–Binet and led the Genetic Studies of Genius, a longitudinal study of 1,528 gifted children begun in 1921.
Lewis Tilney
Lewis Tilney is an American cell biologist at the University of Pennsylvania known for his studies of the cytoskeleton, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1998.
Lewis W. Wannamaker
Lewis W. Wannamaker (1923–1983) was an American physician-scientist who showed that prompt penicillin treatment of streptococcal infections prevents rheumatic fever, work honored with the 1954 Lasker Award.
Lewis Wolpert
Lewis Wolpert (1929–2021) was a South African-born British developmental biologist who formulated positional information, a model for how embryonic cells learn their location and build the body plan.
Li Jiayang
Li Jiayang (李家洋), born in 1956, is a Chinese plant molecular geneticist known for rice plant architecture research and molecular design breeding, and a former Vice Minister of Agriculture.
Li Ma
Li Ma is a cancer researcher and professor of experimental radiation oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center, known for showing that a single microRNA, miR-10b, can initiate breast cancer invasion and metastasis.
Li Zhang
Li Zhang, professionally Li I. Zhang, is a systems neuroscientist and professor at the University of Southern California who studies how neural circuits generate perception and behavior.
Li-Huei Tsai
Li-Huei Tsai (蔡立慧) is a Taiwanese-born American neuroscientist, Picower Professor at MIT, known for CDK5, the epigenetics of memory loss, and 40 Hz gamma stimulation for Alzheimer's.
Li-Meng Yan (闫丽梦)
Li-Meng Yan (闫丽梦), Chinese virologist and former University of Hong Kong postdoctoral fellow whose 2020 Zenodo preprints claiming SARS-CoV-2 was lab-engineered were rated misleading by MIT Press and Johns Hopkins reviewers.
Lia Addadi
Lia Addadi, born 1950, is an Israeli structural chemist at the Weizmann Institute of Science known for her research on biomineralization, how organisms form and control minerals.