Life scientists

P. Jeffrey Conn

P. Jeffrey (Jeff) Conn is an American neuropharmacologist, emeritus professor at Vanderbilt University, who founded its Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery and pioneered allosteric modulators for brain disorders.

P. Leslie Dutton

P. Leslie Dutton, also known as P. L. Dutton, is a British-born American biochemist at the University of Pennsylvania known for biological electron transfer research.

P. Robin Hiesinger

P. Robin Hiesinger, full name Peter Robin Hiesinger, is a German neurobiologist at Freie Universität Berlin who studies how the fruit fly brain wires itself.

P. Roy Vagelos

P. Roy Vagelos is an American physician and biochemist who discovered the acyl carrier protein and later served as chief executive officer of Merck & Co.

P. Todd Stukenberg

P. Todd Stukenberg is an American cell biologist at the University of Virginia known for research on kinetochores, Aurora B kinase, and chromosomal instability in tumors.

P.N.R. Usherwood

P.N.R. Usherwood, also known as Peter N.R. Usherwood, is a neurophysiologist at the University of Nottingham who established L-glutamate as the excitatory transmitter at the insect neuromuscular junction.

Pablo Alberto Gonzalez

Pablo Alberto González Muñoz is a Chilean virologist and immunologist at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile known for research on herpes simplex virus entry, immune evasion, and vaccine development.

Padmanee Sharma

Padmanee Sharma is a physician-scientist in immuno-oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center whose clinical trials in bladder and kidney cancer contributed to FDA approvals of nivolumab.

Pál Maliga

Pal Maliga, born 1946 in Budapest, is a Hungarian-born plant geneticist and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers whose group developed stable chloroplast genome transformation in flowering plants.

Palmer W. Taylor

Palmer W. Taylor is an American pharmacologist at UC San Diego, founding dean of its pharmacy school, known for decades of work on acetylcholine signaling.

Paloma Más

Paloma Más is a Spanish plant biologist and CSIC Research Professor who leads a circadian clock group at CRAG in Barcelona, studying Arabidopsis and crops.

Pamela A. Silver

Pamela A. Silver is an American systems and synthetic biologist, Adams Professor at Harvard Medical School, known for discovering nuclear localization signals and pioneering synthetic biology.

Pamela Guerrerio

Pamela Guerrerio is a physician-scientist who is Chief of the Laboratory of Allergic Diseases and Food Allergy Research Section at NIH's NIAID, and received a 2014 PECASE award.

Pamela J. Bjorkman

Pamela J. Björkman is an American structural immunologist, the David Baltimore Professor at Caltech, known for the first MHC protein structure and HIV and SARS-CoV-2 antibody work.

Pamela J. Fraker

Pamela J. Fraker is an American nutritional immunologist at Michigan State University known for showing how zinc deficiency reprograms the immune system, weakening antibody responses.

Pamela L. Schwartzberg

Pamela L. Schwartzberg is an American immunologist who has run an NIH laboratory since 1997, now at NIAID, known for work on Tec kinases and X-linked lymphoproliferative disease.

Pamela Ronald

Pamela C. Ronald is an American plant pathologist and geneticist at UC Davis who isolated the rice immune receptor XA21 and the Sub1A submergence-tolerance gene, winning the 2022 Wolf Prize in Agriculture.

Pamela Sklar

Pamela Sklar (1959–2017) was an American psychiatric geneticist whose 2009 Nature paper gave the first robust evidence that schizophrenia risk is polygenic, involving thousands of common variants.

Pamela Stanley

Pamela Stanley is an Australian-American glycobiologist and Professor Emerita at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, known for creating lectin-resistant CHO cell lines that revealed how cell-surface carbohydrates are built.

Panagiotis Roussos

Panagiotis (Panos) Roussos is a physician-scientist in psychiatric genomics who studies the neurobiology of schizophrenia at the James J. Peters VA Medical Center and Mount Sinai, winning a 2013 PECASE award.

Pankaj Kapahi

Pankaj Kapahi is an aging biologist and professor at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, known for linking the TOR nutrient pathway to lifespan and for the eyeAge retinal aging clock.

Pankaj Sah

Pankaj Sah is an Australian neuroscientist who has directed the Queensland Brain Institute since 2015 and is known for work on the amygdala's role in learning and memory.

Panos Roussos

Panos Roussos (Panagiotis Roussos) is a Greek-trained geneticist and psychiatrist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he directs the Center for Disease Neurogenomics.

Pao‐Tien Chuang

Pao-Tien Chuang is a molecular biologist and physician-scientist, Professor in the Cardiovascular Research Institute at UCSF, who studies Hedgehog signaling and lung development and identified Hedgehog-interacting protein in 1999.

Paola Arlotta

Paola Arlotta is an Italian-born American developmental neuroscientist, the Golub Family Professor at Harvard, who pioneered human brain organoids and chimeroids and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.

Paola Picotti

Paola Picotti is a proteomics scientist and Full Professor of Molecular Systems Biology at ETH Zurich since 2023, known for the LiP-MS method and Parkinson's disease research.

Paola Scaffidi

Paola Scaffidi is a cancer epigenetics researcher who leads a group at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan, known for her work on HMGB1, progeria, and phenotypic inertia.

Paolo Bernardi

Paolo Bernardi is an Italian professor of general pathology at the University of Padova, a pioneer of mitochondrial physiology known for work on the permeability transition pore.

Paolo Casali

Paolo Casali is an Italian-born immunologist at UT Health San Antonio known for work on class-switch recombination, somatic hypermutation, and a humanized mouse mounting human antibody responses.