Life scientists

Paul B. Chapman

Paul B. Chapman is an American medical oncologist who led the BRIM-3 trial showing vemurafenib improves survival in metastatic melanoma, and is Chief Medical Research Officer at Weill Cornell's Meyer Cancer Center.

Paul B. Lazarow

Paul B. Lazarow is a cell biologist known for defining how peroxisomes are built and what fails in disease, trained under de Duve at Rockefeller University.

Paul B. Rainey

Paul B. Rainey, also known as Paul Rainey, is a New Zealand evolutionary biologist who studies evolution in microbial populations, known for experiments with Pseudomonas fluorescens.

Paul B. Sigler

Paul B. Sigler (1934–2000) was an American structural biologist at Yale who used X-ray crystallography to determine the structures of the trp repressor, GroEL, and G proteins.

Paul Berg

Paul Berg (1926–2023) was an American biochemist at Stanford University who created the first DNA molecule combining parts of different organisms, opening the era of genetic engineering.

Paul Bieniasz

Paul D. Bieniasz is a virologist who heads the Laboratory of Retrovirology at The Rockefeller University, known for identifying tetherin and other restriction factors that block HIV-1.

Paul Börnstein

Paul Börnstein, also known as Paul Bornstein (1934–2013), was a Belgian-born American biochemist at the University of Washington who defined collagen's structure and coined the term matricellular.

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Paul Buchner (researcher)

Paul Ernst Christof Buchner (1886–1978) was a German zoologist who founded the study of hereditary symbiosis in insects, demonstrating transovarial transmission of symbionts in aphids and other Hemiptera.

Paul C. Blainey

Paul C. Blainey is a biological engineer and MIT professor, a core member of the Broad Institute, who develops microfluidic and molecular methods for single-cell sequencing and screening.

Paul C. Sternweis

Paul C. Sternweis is an American biochemist and pharmacologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for discovering the G protein Go and defining Gq regulation of phospholipase C.

Paul C. Zamecnik

Paul C. Zamecnik (1912–2009) was an American molecular biologist who co-discovered transfer RNA and founded the field of antisense therapeutics at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital.

Paul D. Boyer

Paul D. Boyer (Paul Delos Boyer, 1918–2018) was an American biochemist who shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the mechanism by which ATP synthase makes ATP.

Paul D. Thomas

Paul D. Thomas is an American computational biologist at USC known for founding the PANTHER database, directing the Gene Ontology Consortium, and co-directing Swiss-Prot at SIB from 2025.

Paul D.P. Pharoah

Paul Pharoah is a British cancer genetic epidemiologist who studies inherited susceptibility to breast and ovarian cancer and led the PREDICT breast cancer prognosis tools.

Paul DeCaen

Paul DeCaen is an American ion-channel biopharmacologist and professor of pharmacology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine who studies polycystin channels implicated in polycystic kidney disease.

Paul Doty (biochemist)

Paul Mead Doty (1920–2011) was an American biochemist at Harvard who used light scattering to deduce DNA and RNA structures, enabling recombinant DNA, and later led arms-control efforts.

Paul E. Goss

Paul E. Goss (1955–2025) was a South African-born medical oncologist and Harvard professor whose MA.17 and MAP.3 trials at Massachusetts General Hospital defined breast cancer therapy and prevention.

Paul E. Turner

Paul E. Turner is an evolutionary biologist and virologist at Yale University who studies experimental evolution of viruses and develops bacteriophage therapies against antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Paul Ehrlich

Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915) was a German immunologist who shared the 1908 Nobel Prize for work on immunity and developed Salvarsan, the first drug against syphilis.

Paul F. Agris

Paul F. Agris is an American RNA biochemist, a research professor at Duke University School of Medicine, known for the modified wobble hypothesis and the RNA Modification Database.

Paul F. Pilch

Paul F. Pilch is an American biochemist and Emeritus Professor at Boston University School of Medicine, known for identifying the glucose transporter GLUT4 in 1988.

Paul F. Worley

Paul F. Worley is an American neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins known for identifying neuronal immediate early genes, including Homer, and studying the molecular basis of memory.

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Paul Fildes

Paul Fildes was a British microbiologist who founded the study of bacterial nutrition and led Britain's biological warfare research at Porton Down during World War II.

Paul Flicek

Paul Flicek is a computational genomics researcher who led the Ensembl genome annotation project at EMBL-EBI from 2007 to 2022 and joined The Jackson Laboratory as chief data science officer in 2023.

Paul Frankland

Paul Frankland is a Canadian neuroscientist and University of Toronto professor at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, known for research on memory consolidation, engrams, and forgetting.

Paul G. Quie

Paul G. Quie, born in 1925, is an American pediatrician and physician-scientist at the University of Minnesota who pioneered the study of neutrophil function in human disease.

Paul Garrity

Paul A. Garrity is a biology professor at Brandeis University who studies the molecular sensors and neural circuits insects use to detect temperature, humidity, and chemicals.

Paul Goldhaber

Paul Goldhaber (1924–2008) was an American periodontist and bone biologist, dean of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine from 1968 to 1990, known for his bone resorption research.

Paul Greengard

Paul Greengard (1925–2019) was an American neuroscientist at Rockefeller University who won the 2000 Nobel Prize for showing that dopamine acts by adding phosphate groups to proteins.