Life scientists

Liam Dolan

Liam Dolan FRS is an Irish plant scientist who studies how plant roots evolved, and was Sherardian Professor of Botany at Oxford from 2009 to 2020.

Liane Russell

Liane Russell (1923–2019) was an Austrian-born American mammalian geneticist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who discovered the Y chromosome's role in maleness and the single-active-X rule.

Liang Tong

Liang Tong (童亮) is a protein crystallographer and William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor at Columbia University, known for crystal structures of metabolic enzymes and RNA-processing machinery.

Liangyu Zhang is a cell biologist who studies chromosome dynamics during cell division, known for adapting the auxin-inducible degradation (AID) system for protein depletion in the nematode C. elegans.

Libbie Henrietta Hyman

Libbie Henrietta Hyman (1888–1969) was an American zoologist, the most influential comparative invertebrate zoologist of the twentieth century, known for the six-volume treatise The Invertebrates and for working unpaid at the American Museum of Natural History.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858–1954) was an American horticulturist and botanist at Cornell University, known as the Father of American Horticulture and coiner of the term "cultivar."

Libo Shan

Libo Shan (单立波) is a plant immunologist and professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, known for work on how plant receptor kinases and NLR immune receptors are activated.

Lieven De Veylder

Lieven De Veylder is a Belgian plant biologist at Ghent University and VIB who studies how plants control cell division and replenish root stem cells.

Liisa Holm

Liisa Holm, also known as Sirkka-Liisa Holm, is a computational biologist and professor at the University of Helsinki, known for the Dali protein structure comparison method.

Lijun Liu

Lijun Liu is a structural biologist and protein crystallographer at the University of Kansas, known for studies of ligand binding and water in T4 lysozyme cavities.

Lila Davachi

Lila Davachi is a cognitive neuroscientist who studies how the brain encodes and retrieves episodic memory, and joined Yale University as Professor of Psychology in July 2026.

Lila M. Gierasch

Lila M. Gierasch is an American biophysical chemist known for her work on protein folding in the living cell and molecular chaperones, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.

Liliana Attisano

Liliana Attisano is a biochemist at the University of Toronto known for defining how cells receive signals through TGFβ and activin receptors and for her work on Smad2.

Liliana Ossowski

Liliana Ossowski is a cancer researcher and Professor Emeritus at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for studies of tumor invasion, metastasis, and dormancy.

Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi

Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi is an American computational neuroscientist at Stony Brook University who applies control theory to brain imaging and won a 2010 PECASE award.

Liling Wan

Liling Wan is a cancer epigenetics researcher and Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for identifying the chromatin reader ENL as required for acute myeloid leukemia.

Lilly Bourguignon

Lilly Y. W. Bourguignon is a cancer biologist and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, known for her work on hyaluronan–CD44 signaling in cancer.

Lily Jan

Lily Jan, also known as Lily Yeh Jan, is an American molecular neuroscientist at UCSF whose lab cloned the first potassium channel gene in 1987.

Lin He

Lin He (何琳) is a Chinese-American molecular biologist at UC Berkeley who showed that a microRNA cluster can act as an oncogene and won a 2009 MacArthur Fellowship.

Lin Mei

Lin Mei (梅林) is a Chinese-born neuroscientist who studies synapse formation, known for identifying LRP4 as the receptor for agrin and for myasthenia gravis biomarkers.

Lin Tian

Lin Tian is a neuroscientist known for engineering genetically encoded fluorescent sensors of brain activity, including GCaMP, dLight, and psychLight, and has led the Max Planck Florida Institute since 2023.

Lina M. Obeid

Lina M. Obeid (Lina Marie Obeid) was an American physician-scientist who showed that ceramide triggers programmed cell death, opening the field of sphingolipid signaling in cancer.

Linda A. Hicke

Linda A. Hicke is an American cell biologist who established that a single ubiquitin tag directs membrane proteins into lysosomes, and won a 1998 PECASE award.

Linda A. Sherman

Linda A. Sherman is an American immunologist at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for her work on T cell recognition of MHC molecules.

Linda B. Buck

Linda B. Buck, born 1947 in Seattle, is an American neuroscientist who discovered odorant receptor genes and shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Linda B. Smith

Linda B. Smith is an American cognitive scientist and developmental psychologist at Indiana University Bloomington, known for research on how infants learn object names through statistical learning.

Linda Barlow

Linda A. Barlow is an American developmental neurobiologist known for research on how taste buds form and regenerate, now a professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

Linda Bartoshuk

Linda Bartoshuk is an American experimental psychologist who studies taste, smell, and flavor, and is known for discovering supertasters, people who experience unusually intense tastes.

Linda C. Hsieh‐Wilson

Linda C. Hsieh-Wilson is an American chemist at Caltech who studies chemical glycobiology, showing how sugars on proteins regulate cancer metabolism, axon regeneration, and long-term memory.