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Paul R. Riley

Paul R. Riley is a British developmental and cardiovascular biologist, BHF Professor of Regenerative Medicine at Oxford, known for work on reactivating the adult heart's epicardium after heart attack.

Paul Rijlant

Paul Rijlant, also known as Pierre Rijlant, was a Belgian physiologist at the Université libre de Bruxelles who pioneered cathode-ray oscillography of the human heart.

Paul Rufus Burkholder

Paul Rufus Burkholder (1903–1972) was an American microbiologist and botanist, born in Orrstown, Pennsylvania, who discovered the antibiotic chloramphenicol in 1947 and later studied marine antibiotics at Yale and in Puerto Rico.

Paul Russell (molecular biologist)

Paul Russell (born 1956) is a molecular biologist at The Scripps Research Institute known for work on cell-cycle control and DNA repair in fission yeast.

Paul S. Burgoyne

Paul S. Burgoyne (1946–2020) was a British mouse geneticist at the UK Medical Research Council who made fundamental discoveries about sex determination and Y-chromosome genes required for sperm production.

Paul S. Cremer

Paul S. Cremer is an American chemist who holds the J. Lloyd Huck Chair at Penn State since 2013, known for Hofmeister ion effects and supported lipid bilayers.

Paul S. Meltzer

Paul S. Meltzer is an American cancer geneticist who applies genome-wide profiling to cancer classification and treatment, and is Chief of the Genetics Branch at the National Cancer Institute.

Paul Schedl

Paul Schedl is an American molecular biologist and Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University, known for work on the Drosophila sex-determination switch gene Sex-lethal and on chromatin boundary elements.

Paul Schimmel

Paul Reinhard Schimmel is an American biochemist at Scripps Research and MIT known for his work on aminoacyl tRNA synthetases, the genetic code, and cofounding several biotechnology companies.

Paul Schulze-Lefert

Paul Schulze-Lefert (born 1958 in Münster) is a German plant geneticist known for work on how plants detect pathogens and for the plant root microbiota.

Paul T. Englund

Paul T. Englund (1938–2019) was an American biochemist at Johns Hopkins known for working out how trypanosomes replicate their kinetoplast DNA and build GPI anchors.

Paul T. Sharpe

Paul T. Sharpe, also known as Paul Sharpe, is a molecular biologist and Emeritus Professor of Craniofacial Biology at King's College London, known for tooth development research.

Paul W. Glimcher

Paul W. Glimcher is an American neuroscientist at New York University credited as the founder of neuroeconomics, the study of decision-making bridging neuroscience and economics.

Paul W. K. Rothemund

Paul W. K. Rothemund, also known as Paul Rothemund, is an American researcher at Caltech who invented scaffolded DNA origami, described in Nature in 2006.

Paul W. Sternberg

Paul W. Sternberg is a Caltech biologist who studies the nematode C. elegans, known for connecting worm development genes to human cancer genes and leading WormBase.

Paula D. Ryan

Paula D. Ryan is an American medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer, known for the HOXB13:IL17BR two-gene ratio predicting tamoxifen outcomes; she has practiced at Massachusetts General, Fox Chase, and Texas Oncology.

Paula J. Grabowski

Paula J. Grabowski is a molecular biologist and Professor Emerita at the University of Pittsburgh who helped identify the spliceosome and studied how RNA splicing is regulated in neurons.

Paula Lemons

Paula Lemons is an American biochemistry education researcher and professor at the University of Georgia, a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Paula M. Pitha

Paula M. Pitha, also published as Paula Pitha-Rowe (1937–2015), was a Czech-born virologist who led interferon research at Johns Hopkins, showing how herpesvirus infection can reactivate latent HIV.

Pavan P Ramdya

Pavan P Ramdya, also published as Pavan Ramdya, is an American neuroscientist and Associate Professor at EPFL whose laboratory reverse-engineers the fruit fly to study motor behavior.

Pavel Baranov

Pavel Baranov (Павел Баранов) is an RNA biologist and Professor of Biomolecular Informatics at University College Cork who studies genetic decoding, translation termination, and ribosome stalling.

Pavel Osten

Pavel Osten is a neuroscientist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory who develops automated microscopy, including serial two-photon tomography, to map cell types and connectivity across the whole mouse brain.

Pavel Pevzner

Pavel Pevzner is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at UC San Diego who pioneered de Bruijn graph genome assembly, created the Flye assembler, and wrote widely adopted bioinformatics textbooks.

Pawan Sinha

Pawan Sinha is a professor of vision and computational neuroscience at MIT whose Project Prakash treats curably blind children in India and studies how their brains learn to see.

Paweł Kisielow

Paweł Kisielow, also known as Pawel Kisielow, is a Polish immunologist and Professor Emeritus in Wrocław known for identifying the two major T cell subsets and thymic selection.

Pedro A. Sanchez

Pedro A. Sanchez (1940–2026) was a Cuban-born American soil scientist known for restoring depleted farmland in Africa and South America, winning the 2002 World Food Prize.

Pedro Beltrão

Pedro Beltrão, born 1979, is a Swiss-based computational systems biologist who studies genetic variation and post-translational modification, and is an Associate Professor at ETH Zurich since 2022.

Pedro Carvalho (cell biologist)

Pedro Carvalho is a Portuguese cell biologist who has been EP Abraham Professor at the University of Oxford since 2016, known for work on ER-associated protein degradation.

Pedro León Azofeifa

Pedro León Azofeifa is a Costa Rican molecular geneticist, a Catedrático at the Universidad de Costa Rica who mapped and cloned the gene behind the Monge family's hereditary deafness.

Pedro Pinto da Silva

Pedro Pinto da Silva is a cell biologist who used freeze-fracture and freeze-etch electron microscopy to work out how membranes split and distribute components between their two halves.