Life scientists

Ludger Johannes

Ludger Johannes is a German-born cell biologist, Research Director at Inserm and team head at Institut Curie in Paris since 2001, known for retrograde transport and the GL-Lect hypothesis.

Ludimar Hermann

Ludimar Hermann (1838–1914) was a German physiologist and speech scientist, professor at Zurich and Königsberg, who discovered the Hermann grid illusion and coined the term vocal formants.

Ludmila Y. Frolova

Ludmila Y. Frolova is a Russian molecular biologist at the Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology in Moscow who identified the conserved GGQ motif of translation release factors.

Ludovic Orlando

Ludovic Orlando (born 1977) is a French paleogenomicist and CNRS research director who sequenced some of the oldest genomes and resolved where horses and donkeys were domesticated.

Ludovic Vallier

Ludovic Vallier, born 1973, is a French stem cell biologist who models liver disease using human pluripotent stem cells and organoids at the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité.

Ludwig von Bertalanffy

Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901–1972) was an Austrian theoretical biologist and philosopher, known as the father of general system theory, whose growth equation still dominates fisheries science.

Ludwik Gross (1904–1999) was a Polish-born American virologist who, working at the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital, showed that leukemia in mammals is transmitted by a virus and won the 1974 Lasker Award.

Luigi D. Notarangelo

Luigi D. Notarangelo, also known as Luigi Daniele Notarangelo, is an Italian-born immunologist who studies the genetic causes of primary immune deficiencies at the NIH.

Luigi Gorini

Luigi Gorini (1903–1976) was an Italian-born molecular biologist and Harvard Medical School professor who showed that the ribosome determines how faithfully the genetic code is read.

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (1922–2018), Italian population geneticist at Stanford, founder of human population genetics and genetic geography; with Edwards built the first human evolutionary tree (1963), co-founded cultural evolution with Feldman, led the HGDP, and wrote The History and Geography of Human Genes (1994).

Luigi Luciani

Luigi Luciani (1840–1919) was an Italian physiologist and neurologist, professor at Rome, who defined the cerebellar triad of atonia, asthenia, and astasia and studied heart rhythm and fasting.

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Luigi Naldini

Luigi Naldini, born in Turin in 1959, is an Italian physician-scientist whose HIV-derived lentiviral vectors underpin modern ex vivo gene therapy, including the approved medicines Strimvelis and Libmeldy.

Luis B. Barreiro

Luis Barreiro is a human population geneticist and immunogeneticist, Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago, known for work linking genetic ancestry and past natural selection to immune response differences.

Luis Enjuanes

Luis Enjuanes is a Spanish virologist who heads the Coronavirus Laboratory at CNB-CSIC in Madrid, known for the first infectious coronavirus cDNA clone and vaccine candidates.

Luis Esquivies

Luis Esquivies is a structural biologist and molecular physiologist, a research specialist at HHMI in Stanford, California, since 2017, known for synaptic vesicle structure and peptide inhibitors of membrane fusion.

Luis Herrera-Estrella

Luis Rafael Herrera-Estrella is a Mexican plant molecular biologist who pioneered the first transgenic plants at Ghent University and now works at Texas Tech University and Cinvestav.

Luis Sequeira

Luis Sequeira is a Costa Rican-born plant pathologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1980 and known for research on bacterial wilt and induced resistance.

Sep 20, 2026

Luis Serrano

Luis Serrano (Luís Serrano Pubul, born 1959) is a Spanish systems and synthetic biologist who led the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona and created the FoldX protein-design software.

Luı́s de Lecea

Luis de Lecea is a Spanish-trained neuroscientist, professor of psychiatry at Stanford, known for discovering the hypocretins in 1998 and optogenetic control of awakening in 2007.

Lukas C. Kühn

Lukas C. Kühn is a molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at EPFL in Lausanne who established the IRP/IRE system, the iron-dependent pathway controlling messenger RNA stability and translation.

Lukas E. Dow

Lukas E. Dow, also published as Lukas Dow, is an Australian-born molecular biologist studying colorectal cancer genetics at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York.

Lukas Kapitein

Lukas C. Kapitein, born 1978, is a Dutch biophysicist and professor at Utrecht University known for studying motor proteins and controlling organelle transport with light.

Lukas Sommer

Lukas Sommer is a professor of stem cell biology at the University of Zurich's Institute of Anatomy, known for research on neural crest stem cells, melanoma, and skin wound healing.

Łukasz Łuczaj

Łukasz Łuczaj (Łukasz Jakub Łuczaj), born 1972, is a Polish botanist at the University of Rzeszów known for ethnobotanical research on wild edible plants in Europe and Asia.

Luke A. Gilbert

Luke A. Gilbert is an American molecular biologist, an Associate Professor of Urology at UCSF and Arc Institute investigator, known for developing CRISPRi and CRISPRa gene-control methods.

Luke Alphey

Luke Alphey is a geneticist holding the Chair in Genetics at the University of York, known for pioneering engineered sterile-male mosquitoes for genetic pest control.

Luke Chang

Luke J. Chang is a computational social affective neuroscientist and associate professor at Dartmouth College who directs its Computational Social Affective Neuroscience Laboratory and received the 2025 PECASE award.

Luke D. Lavis

Luke D. Lavis, also known as Luke Lavis, is an American chemist at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus who develops fluorescent dyes for biological imaging, including the Janelia Fluor dyes.

Sep 20, 2026

Luke O'Neill (immunologist)

Luke O'Neill is an Irish immunologist who holds the Chair of Biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin, known for work on Toll-like receptors, inflammasomes, and immunometabolism.