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Norton B. Gilula
Norton B. Gilula (1944–2000) was an American cell and molecular biologist at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, known for work on gap junctions and connexin genes.
Norton D. Zinder
Norton D. Zinder (1928–2012) was an American molecular geneticist who discovered transduction in Salmonella and the first RNA-containing bacteriophages, spending his career at Rockefeller University.
Nouria Hernandez
Nouria Hernandez is a Swiss molecular biologist known for establishing how vertebrate snRNA genes are transcribed by two RNA polymerases and co-discovering SNAPc; she was rector of the University of Lausanne.
Nynke Dekker
Nynke Dekker, born 1971 in Amsterdam, is a biophysicist and Statutory Professor of Biophysics at Oxford, known for single-molecule studies of DNA replication and magnetic tweezers.
Obaid Siddiqi
Obaid Siddiqi (1932–2013) was an Indian neurogeneticist whose Drosophila work helped found behavioral genetics; he built the Molecular Biology Unit at TIFR and NCBS, Bengaluru.
Oded Béjà
Oded Béjà is an Israeli microbiologist and professor at the Technion in Haifa whose metagenomics research discovered proteorhodopsin phototrophy in ocean bacteria, heliorhodopsins, and viral photosynthesis genes.
Oded Rechavi
Oded Rechavi is an Israeli biologist and Full Professor at Tel Aviv University who studies transgenerational inheritance of acquired traits through small RNA molecules in C. elegans.
Oded Shoseyov
Oded Shoseyov is an Israeli professor of protein engineering and nanobiotechnology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, scientific founder of CollPlant, which makes recombinant human collagen in tobacco plants.
Ofer Mandelboim
Ofer Mandelboim (עופר מנדלבוים) is an Israeli immunologist and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem known for research on natural killer cells and viral immune evasion.
Øjvind Winge
Øjvind Winge (1886–1964) was a Danish geneticist and mycologist, called the father of yeast genetics, who proved sexual reproduction in yeast while directing the Carlsberg Laboratory's physiology department from 1933 to 1956.
Okihide Hikosaka
Okihide Hikosaka is a Japanese neurophysiologist and Distinguished Investigator at the National Eye Institute, NIH, known for showing how the basal ganglia link reward to action.
Olaf Blanke
Olaf Blanke (born 1969 in Minden, Germany) is a Swiss-based cognitive neuroscientist and neurologist known for experimentally inducing out-of-body experiences by brain stimulation and virtual reality.
Olaf Pongs
Olaf Pongs is a German molecular biologist known for the molecular biology of voltage-gated potassium channels, including cloned Shaker and rat brain channel genes and the 1994 Nature β-subunit paper.
Olaf Schneewind
Olaf Schneewind (1961–2019) was a German-born microbiologist and chair of microbiology at the University of Chicago, known for discovering sortase and studying Staphylococcus aureus, anthrax, and plague.
Olaf Sporns
Olaf Sporns is a German-born neuroscientist at Indiana University Bloomington who coined the term "human connectome" in 2005 and mapped the human brain's network structure.
Ole H. Petersen
Ole H. Petersen, born 1943, is a Danish-born physiologist at Cardiff University known for discovering intracellular calcium tunnels and defining calcium signaling failure in acute pancreatitis.
Ole Isacson
Ole Isacson is a physician and neuroscientist known for neural transplantation and stem-cell therapy research in Parkinson's disease. He directs the Neuroregeneration Research Institute at McLean Hospital and teaches neurology at Harvard Medical School.
Ole Kiehn
Ole Kiehn, born 1958, is a Danish–Swedish systems neuroscientist who studies the neural circuits that make mammals walk, run, and stop, and won the 2022 Brain Prize.
Olga Boudker
Olga Boudker is a structural biologist and HHMI Investigator at Weill Cornell Medicine, best known for establishing the elevator mechanism of glutamate transporters; she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.
Olga G. Troyanskaya
Olga G. Troyanskaya is a bioinformatics and genomics researcher, Maduraperuma/Khot Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, known for the HumanBase platform for predicting gene function and interactions.
Olga Kennard
Olga Kennard, née Weisz (1924–2023), was a British crystallographer who founded the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre and built the Cambridge Structural Database of over a million small-molecule structures.
Oliver Billker
Oliver Billker is a German-born malaria researcher, Professor of Molecular Biology and Director of MIMS at Umeå University since 2018, elected an EMBO Member in 2024.
Oliver E. Nelson Jr.
Oliver E. Nelson Jr. (1920–2001) was an American maize geneticist at Purdue and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1972.
Oliver Einsle
Oliver Einsle (born 1970) is a German biochemist and structural biologist, Full Professor and Chair of Biochemistry at the University of Freiburg since 2008, known for high-resolution nitrogenase structures.
Oliver H. Lowry
Oliver H. Lowry (1910–1996) was an American biochemist and pharmacologist at Washington University in St. Louis, known for the Lowry protein assay, one of the most cited papers in science.
Oliver Hobert
Oliver Hobert is a German-born American neurogeneticist at Columbia University and HHMI Investigator known for defining gene regulatory networks that assign each neuron its identity in C. elegans.
Oliver Rando
Oliver J. Rando is a molecular biologist and professor at UMass Chan Medical School known for a 2010 Cell study showing a father's diet alters offspring metabolism.
Oliver Seitz
Oliver Seitz (born 1966) is a German chemical biologist and professor at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, known for chemical protein synthesis and nucleic acid-templated chemistry.
Oliver Soehnlein
Oliver Soehnlein is a German immunologist studying neutrophils in atherosclerosis; since 2021 he has been Professor and Director of the Institute of Experimental Pathology at the University of Münster.
Oliver Stegle
Oliver Stegle is a German computational biologist who develops statistical and machine-learning methods for single-cell and spatial genomics, heading a joint DKFZ and EMBL division in Heidelberg.