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Lluís Quintana‐Murci
Lluís Quintana-Murci, born 1970 in Palma de Mallorca, is a Spanish-born French population geneticist who leads the Human Evolutionary Genetics unit at the Institut Pasteur.
Lluı́s Ribas de Pouplana
Lluís Ribas de Pouplana is a Catalan molecular biologist who studies transfer RNA and the genetic code, heading the Gene Translation Laboratory at IRB Barcelona since 2003.
Lois K. Miller
Lois K. Miller (1945–1999) was an American geneticist at the University of Georgia who developed baculoviruses, insect viruses, as gene expression vectors and engineered biopesticides, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1997.
Lon R. Cardon
Lon R. Cardon is a human geneticist and president and CEO of The Jackson Laboratory since 2021, known for co-founding the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium.
Long Cai
Long Cai (蔡龙) is a biologist at Caltech who develops imaging methods for single cells, known for seqFISH and for MEMOIR, which records molecular events into cell genomes.
Lonnie Ingram
Lonnie Ingram (1947–2020) was an American microbiologist and metabolic engineer at the University of Florida who engineered E. coli to produce ethanol for biofuels and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2001.
Lora K. Heisler
Lora K. Heisler is a neuroscientist who studies the brain circuits that regulate appetite and metabolism, holding a Chair in Nutritional Neuroscience at the University of Aberdeen's Rowett Institute in Scotland.
Lora V. Hooper
Lora V. Hooper, also known as Lora Hooper, is an American immunologist who studies how gut bacteria interact with the immune system at UT Southwestern.
Lorande Loss Woodruff
Lorande Loss Woodruff (1879–1947) was an American protozoologist at Yale University who studied inheritance and senescence in ciliates, maintaining pedigreed Paramecium aurelia cultures through more than 5,000 generations without conjugation.
Lord Boyd Orr
Lord Boyd Orr, born John Boyd Orr, was a Scottish nutrition scientist who directed the Rowett Institute, led the FAO, and won the 1949 Nobel Peace Prize.
Lord Todd
Lord Todd, also known as Alexander Todd, was a Scottish biochemist who won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes.
Loren Dean Williams
Loren Dean Williams is a biochemist and professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology known for the iron(II) RNA cofactor hypothesis and an accretion model of ribosome evolution.
Loren L Looger
Loren L. Looger is an American protein engineer and neuroscientist, an HHMI Investigator and professor at UC San Diego known for engineering the widely used GCaMP calcium indicators.
Loren M. Frank
Loren M. Frank is an American systems and computational neuroscientist, Professor of Physiology at UCSF and an HHMI Investigator since 2015, known for research on hippocampal memory.
Lorenz Studer
Lorenz Studer is a Swiss-trained stem cell biologist who directs the Center for Stem Cell Biology at Memorial Sloan Kettering and works on Parkinson's cell therapy.
Lorenzo Moretta
Lorenzo Moretta is an Italian immunologist known for discovering natural killer cell receptors, and head of the Department of Immunology at the Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù in Rome.
Lori Passmore
Lori Passmore is a Canadian structural biologist and Royal Society Fellow who leads cryo-EM research on mRNA processing at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.
Lorna W. Role
Lorna W. Role is an American neuroscientist studying cholinergic signaling in memory circuits, who led NINDS intramural research as Scientific Director from 2019 to 2021.
Lorraine Pillus
Lorraine Pillus is a molecular biologist and Professor at UC San Diego, known for her 1989 Cell paper demonstrating epigenetic inheritance of transcriptional silencing in yeast.
Lorraine Symington
Lorraine Symington is a British-born yeast geneticist at Columbia University, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2024, known for work on DNA double-strand break repair.
Lorrin A. Riggs
Lorrin A. Riggs (1912–2008) was an American physiological psychologist and vision scientist who spent his 39-year career at Brown University studying visual perception and eye movements.
Lothar Hennighausen
Lothar Hennighausen is a molecular biologist at NIDDK, part of the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, known for work on mammary gland development, STAT5, and transgenic mouse technology.
Lothar Willmitzer
Lothar Willmitzer (born 1952) is a German plant physiologist and molecular biologist, founding director of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam-Golm.
Louis B. Flexner
Louis B. Flexner (1902–1996) was an American biochemist and pioneer of neurochemistry, best known for work on the biochemistry of memory with his wife Josefa.
Louis Bolk
Louis Bolk, born Lodewijk Bolk, was a Dutch anatomist and evolutionary theorist, professor of anatomy at Amsterdam, best known for his fetalization theory of human evolution.
Louis Duysens
Louis Nico Marie Duysens (1921–2015) was a Dutch biophysicist and professor at Leiden University whose 1952 thesis gave the first spectroscopic evidence for photosynthetic reaction centers and whose 1961 experiments proved the two-light-reaction scheme of photosynthesis.
Louis F. Reichardt
Louis F. Reichardt is an American neurobiologist who spent 37 years at UCSF studying nervous system development and directed the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative from 2013.
Louis J. Ignarro
Louis J. Ignarro, born 1941 in Brooklyn, is an American pharmacologist at UCLA who shared the 1998 Nobel Prize for identifying nitric oxide as the blood-vessel-relaxing signaling molecule.
Louis J. Picker
Louis J. Picker (Louis Picker) is an American immunologist and physician-scientist at OHSU known for memory T cell biology and a CMV-vectored HIV vaccine platform tested in macaques.
Louis J. Ptáček
Louis J. Ptáček, also written Louis Ptacek, is an American neurologist and human geneticist at UCSF who pioneered the study of channelopathies and established human sleep genetics.