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Patrick Cramer

Patrick Cramer is a German chemist and structural molecular biologist known for determining the structure of RNA polymerase II, and president of the Max Planck Society since 2023.

Patrick Doherty (neuroscientist)

Patrick Doherty is a molecular neuroscientist and Emeritus Professor at King's College London, at King's from 1990, known for work on neural cell adhesion molecules and the enzymes that synthesize 2-AG.

Patrick Emery

Patrick Emery is a chronobiologist and professor of neurobiology at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts, known for discovering cryptochrome's role in circadian rhythms.

Patrick F. Chinnery

Patrick F. Chinnery is a British neurologist and neurogeneticist at Cambridge known for work on mitochondrial DNA disorders, and Executive Chair of the Medical Research Council.

Patrick F. Sullivan

Patrick F. Sullivan, also known as Patrick Sullivan, is a psychiatric geneticist at UNC Chapel Hill and Karolinska Institutet who founded the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium.

Patrick Forterre

Patrick Forterre is a French biochemist and microbiologist, a professor at the Institut Pasteur since 2014, known for his work on Archaea and DNA topoisomerases.

Patrick G. Hogan

Patrick Hogan is an American molecular biologist at La Jolla Institute for Immunology who discovered the transcription factor NFAT and helped define store-operated calcium entry in T cells.

Patrick H. Maxwell

Patrick H. Maxwell, born 1962, is a British nephrologist known for work on how cells sense oxygen through the VHL and HIF pathway, and Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge since 2012.

Patrick H. O’Farrell

Patrick H. O'Farrell is an American developmental biologist at UCSF, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2017 for work on cell division in embryos.

Patrick Haggard

Patrick Haggard is a British cognitive neuroscientist, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, whose 2002 paper introduced the intentional binding effect linking voluntary actions to their outcomes.

Patrick J. Stover

Patrick J. Stover is an American nutritional biochemist at Florida State University known for research on folate metabolism and folic acid's role in preventing birth defects.

Patrick Lemaire

Patrick Lemaire is a French developmental biologist and CNRS Research Director at the CRBM in Montpellier who studies ascidian embryogenesis, known for cloning the Xenopus organizer gene Siamois in 1995.

Patrick Matthias

Patrick Matthias is a Swiss molecular biologist known for work on B lymphocyte transcription and histone deacetylases, and for discovering the B cell coactivator OBF-1.

Patrick O. Brown

Patrick O. Brown, born 1954, is an American biochemist and Stanford professor emeritus who defined retroviral integration, co-invented the DNA microarray, and founded Impossible Foods.

Patrick P. L. Tam

Patrick P. L. Tam, also known as Patrick Tam, is a Hong Kong-born developmental biologist in Sydney known for fate mapping the early mouse embryo.

Patrick Ryan Potts

Patrick Ryan Potts is a cancer biologist known for discovering MAGE-RING ubiquitin ligase complexes; since 2020 he has led Amgen's Induced Proximity Platform, developing targeted protein degradation drugs.

Patrick S. Schnable

Patrick S. Schnable is an American plant geneticist at Iowa State University who co-led the team that published the maize reference genome in 2009 and directs the Plant Sciences Institute.

Patrick Seale

Patrick Seale is an American-trained biologist and professor of cell and developmental biology at the University of Pennsylvania, known for work on brown fat and muscle satellite cells.

Patrik Ernfors

Patrik Ernfors is a neuroscientist and Professor of Tissue Biology at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, known for molecular classification of sensory neurons and The Brain Prize 2026.

Patrik Verstreken

Patrik Verstreken (born 1974) is a Belgian molecular neurobiologist who studies how synapses work and break down in Parkinson's disease, directing the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research.

Paul A. Janmey

Paul A. Janmey is a biophysicist and Professor of Physiology at the University of Pennsylvania since 1999, known for research on cytoskeletal mechanics and strain-stiffening biological gels.

Paul A. Khavari

Paul A. Khavari is a physician-scientist who studies how genome regulation directs skin stem cells to differentiate or become cancer, and has chaired dermatology at Stanford since 2010.

Paul A. Luciw

Paul A. Luciw is an American virologist and Professor Emeritus at UC Davis known for molecularly cloning the AIDS-associated retrovirus in 1984 and for HIV and SIV vaccine research.

Paul A. Marks

Paul A. Marks, also known as Paul Marks, was an American physician-scientist who pioneered differentiation therapy for cancer and served as president of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center from 1980 to 1999.

Paul A. Northcott

Paul A. Northcott is a cancer geneticist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis known for establishing the four molecular subgroups of medulloblastoma, the most common malignant childhood brain tumor.

Paul A. Roche

Paul A. Roche is an American immunologist and Senior Investigator at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, known for work on MHC class II peptide loading.

Paul A. Srere

Paul A. Srere was an American biochemist at UT Southwestern in Dallas who named the metabolon, the idea that Krebs cycle enzymes form a physical complex.

Paul A. Wade

Paul A. Wade is a molecular biologist and Senior Investigator at NIEHS in North Carolina, known for work on the Mi-2/NuRD chromatin-remodeling complex in cancer.

Paul A. Weiss

Paul A. Weiss (1898–1989) was an Austrian-born American developmental biologist and neuroscientist who established cellular self-organization and discovered axonal transport, teaching at the University of Chicago and Rockefeller University.

Paul Ahlquist

Paul Ahlquist is an American molecular virologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who studies positive-strand RNA virus replication, using brome mosaic virus as his principal model.