Life scientists

OliverH. Lowry

Oliver H. Lowry (1910–1996) was an American biochemist at Washington University in St. Louis who developed the Lowry protein assay, the most highly cited paper in science.

Olivier Civelli

Olivier Civelli is a Swiss-trained neuropharmacologist who holds the Nelson Chair at UC Irvine, cloned the D2 and D4 dopamine receptors, and discovered orphanin FQ in 1995.

Olivier Delaneau

Olivier Delaneau is a statistical geneticist and main developer of the SHAPEIT haplotype estimation software, whose tools are used in the 1000 Genomes Project, UK Biobank, and GTEx.

Olivier Delattre

Olivier Delattre is a French pediatrician and cancer geneticist, research director at Inserm, best known for identifying in 1992 the genes rearranged in Ewing's sarcoma, a childhood bone cancer.

Olivier Devergne is a Drosophila developmental geneticist and Associate Professor at Northern Illinois University, known for work on JAK/STAT signaling, epithelial polarity, and basement membrane deposition.

Olivier Féron

Olivier Féron is a Belgian cancer researcher and professor at UCLouvain in Brussels who studies how the acidic tumor microenvironment reshapes cancer cell metabolism and ferroptosis.

Olivier Haccard

Olivier Haccard is a French cell-cycle biologist, a CNRS research director at the Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience known for defining the Mos–MAP kinase pathway in Xenopus egg maturation.

Olivier Hamant

Olivier Hamant is a French biologist and biophysicist, research director at INRAE and deputy director of the RDP laboratory in Lyon, studying how mechanical forces guide plant development.

Olivier Lantz

Olivier Lantz is a physician-immunologist at Institut Curie in Paris who discovered mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells, named them in a 2003 Nature paper, and leads research on their role in cancer.

Olivier Pourquie

Olivier Pourquie is a French developmental biologist known for discovering the vertebrate segmentation clock, the molecular oscillator timing somite formation in embryos. He is a professor at Harvard Medical School.

Olivier Pourquié

Olivier Pourquié is a French-American developmental biologist, professor at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, known for discovering the segmentation clock that governs somite formation.

Olivier Schwartz

Olivier Schwartz is a French virologist and professor at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, where he has headed the Virus and Immunity unit since 2007.

Olivier Voinnet

Olivier Voinnet is a French plant molecular biologist who studies RNA silencing in plants; he has been professor of RNA biology at ETH Zurich since 2010.

Olke C. Uhlenbeck

Olke C. Uhlenbeck (Olke Cornelis Uhlenbeck) is an RNA biochemist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado Boulder, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1993.

Olle Bjorkman

Olle Björkman (Olof Erik Björkman, 1933–2021) was a Swedish-born plant physiologist who spent his career at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology in Stanford, California, studying how photosynthesis adapts to light, temperature, and aridity.

Olle Björkman

Olle Björkman (Olof Erik Björkman, 1933–2021) was a Swedish-born plant physiologist at the Carnegie Institution in Stanford, known for work on photosynthetic adaptation to light, temperature, and aridity.

Olle Lindvall

Olle Lindvall is a Swedish neurologist and neuroscientist at Lund University who led its Parkinson's cell transplantation program and showed that stroke triggers new neuron formation.

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Olof Hammarsten

Olof Hammarsten (1841–1932) was a Swedish physician and chemist, professor of physiological chemistry at Uppsala, who showed casein was the first phosphoprotein and chaired the Nobel chemistry committee.

Olufunmilayo Olopade

Olufunmilayo Olopade is a Nigerian-born American oncologist and geneticist at the University of Chicago known for research on breast cancer genetics in women of African ancestry.

Omid Akbari

Omid Akbari is a cellular and molecular immunologist and professor at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, known for identifying natural killer T cells in asthma.

Ophir Klein

Ophir D. Klein is a developmental and stem cell biologist, pediatrician, and clinical geneticist who studies organ formation and regeneration, known for his 2018 Nature study on intestinal repair.

Or Gozani

Or Gozani is a molecular biologist and the Dr. Morris Herzstein Professor of Biology at Stanford University, where his laboratory has studied histone methylation in cancer since 2005.

Oreste Acuto

Oreste Acuto is an immunologist known for work on T-cell receptor signaling and CD28 co-stimulation, who was professor at Oxford's Dunn School of Pathology from 2006 and has retired.

Oriol Pich

Oriol Pich (born 1992) is a Spanish computational biologist at the Francis Crick Institute known for first-author papers on mutational footprints of cancer therapies and tumor-infiltrating clonal hematopoiesis.

Orion D. Weiner

Orion D. Weiner is a cell biology professor at UCSF's Cardiovascular Research Institute who studies how cells control shape and movement, showing that membrane tension organizes cell polarity.

Orlando J. Miller

Orlando J. Miller was an American cytogeneticist who worked on human sex chromosome abnormalities and the H-Y antigen, later at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Orna Cohen-Fix

Orna Cohen-Fix is a cell biologist who leads the Laboratory of Biochemistry & Genetics at NIH's NIDDK, studying nuclear shape, size, and cell-cycle regulation, and received a 2000 PECASE award.

Osamu Hayaishi

Osamu Hayaishi (早石修, 1920–2015) was a Japanese biochemist, born in Stockton, California, who discovered the oxygenases and established prostaglandin D2 as a sleep-promoting substance in the brain.

Osamu Nureki

Osamu Nureki (濡木理) is a Japanese structural biologist and University of Tokyo professor known for crystal structures of CRISPR-Cas9, Cpf1, and other RNA-guided nucleases.