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Peer Bork
Peer Bork (1963–2026) was a German computational biologist at EMBL Heidelberg, best known for the STRING protein-interaction database, the iTOL tree tool, and the concept of gut microbiome enterotypes.
Peggy Farnham
Peggy Farnham is an American molecular biologist at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, a founding ENCODE member known for developing ChIP methods for mammalian cells.
Pehr B. Harbury
Pehr B. Harbury is an American biochemist and associate professor at Stanford University whose DNA-templated synthesis method programs small-molecule drug discovery, earning him a 2005 MacArthur Fellowship.
Pehr Victor Edman
Pehr Victor Edman (1916–1977) was a Swedish biochemist who devised the Edman degradation, the stepwise method for protein sequencing, and later built an automated protein sequenator.
Pei Zhou
Pei Zhou is a structural biologist and biochemist at Duke University who uses NMR spectroscopy and crystallography to study protein structures and develop antibiotic and anticancer drug leads.
Peijun Zhang
Peijun Zhang is a structural biologist working in cryo-electron microscopy, Professor at Oxford and founding director of eBIC, known for the complete all-atom structure of the HIV-1 capsid.
Peixuan Guo
Peixuan Guo (郭培宣) is a nanobiotechnologist who founded the field of RNA nanotechnology, discovered the phi29 motor pRNA, and holds an endowed chair at Ohio State University.
Pekka Lappalainen
Pekka Lappalainen, born in 1966 in Espoo, Finland, is a Finnish cell biologist and professor at the University of Helsinki known for his work on actin cytoskeleton regulation.
Penelope Boston
Penelope (Penny) Boston is an American speleologist and astrobiologist who pioneered the study of cave microorganisms as analogs for life on other planets, and directed NASA's Astrobiology Institute from 2016.
Peng Chen (molecular biologist)
Peng Chen is a chemist who holds the Peter J. W. Debye Professorship of Chemistry at Cornell University, known for single-molecule imaging of catalytic reactions on individual nanoparticles.
Peng Huang (molecular biologist)
Peng Huang (黄蓬) is a Chinese molecular biologist and cancer-metabolism researcher known for work on reactive oxygen species as a basis for selectively killing cancer cells.
Peng Jin
Peng Jin is an American human geneticist, chair of human genetics at Emory University School of Medicine, known for work on microRNAs, RNA modifications, and fragile X syndrome.
Peng Yang (杨鹏)
Peng Yang (杨鹏) is a Chinese geneticist who studies KRAB zinc-finger proteins and has been a tenured professor at Tongji University in Shanghai since 2018.
Penny L. Moore
Penny L. Moore is a South African virologist at the University of the Witwatersrand and the NICD who studies HIV broadly neutralizing antibodies and SARS-CoV-2 immune escape.
Pentao Liu
Pentao Liu, published as Pengtao Liu, is a stem cell biologist and professor at the University of Hong Kong known for developing Expanded Potential Stem Cells.
Per A. Peterson
Per A. Peterson, also known as Per Artur Peterson, is a Swedish-born immunologist known for MHC research who chaired immunology at Scripps before leading Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical R&D.
Per Andersen
Per Andersen (1930–2020) was a Norwegian neuroscientist at the University of Oslo whose lab identified inhibitory neurons, developed the hippocampal slice, and discovered long-term potentiation.
Per Eystein Lønning
Per Eystein Lønning, also published as Per E. Lønning, is a Norwegian oncologist and University of Bergen professor known for research on breast cancer treatment resistance.
Per Fredrik Scholander
Per Fredrik Scholander (1905–1980) was a Norwegian-American physiologist who pioneered the study of diving mammals, invented the Scholander gas analyzer, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1961.
Per Halkjær Nielsen
Per Halkjær Nielsen is a Danish professor of environmental microbiology at Aalborg University who studies the microbial ecology of activated sludge and created the MiDAS reference database.
Pere Puigserver
Pere Puigserver (born 1965) is a cell biologist, professor at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, known for discovering PGC-1α in 1998 and diabetes drug research.
Pere Roca-Cusachs
Pere Roca-Cusachs is a Spanish cell biophysicist and professor of physiology at the University of Barcelona who studies how cells detect and respond to mechanical forces from their environment.
Pere Santamaría
Pere Santamaría is a Spanish-born Canadian immunologist at the University of Calgary who studies type 1 diabetes and invented Navacims, nanomedicines that reprogram disease-causing immune cells.
Periannan Senapathy
Periannan Senapathy is an Indian-born molecular biologist who proposed the split gene theory of exon-intron gene origins and wrote the 1994 book Independent Birth of Organisms.
Pernille Rørth
Pernille Rørth is a Danish molecular biologist who studies how cells migrate and divide during development using the fruit fly Drosophila, known for identifying tribbles as a cell cycle regulator.
Perry A. Frey
Perry A. Frey (born 1935) is an American biochemist, professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, whose studies of lysine 2,3-aminomutase identified the radical SAM mechanism of enzymatic catalysis.
Perry J. Blackshear
Perry J. Blackshear is an American biochemist and NIH Scientist Emeritus whose laboratory cloned tristetraprolin, a zinc finger protein that promotes decay of TNF-α mRNA.
Perry L. Adkisson
Perry L. Adkisson (1929–2020) was an American agricultural entomologist at Texas A&M University who pioneered integrated pest management, reducing insecticide use, and shared the 1997 World Food Prize.
Perry William Wilson
Perry William Wilson (1902–1981) was an American microbiologist and professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin who turned biological nitrogen fixation into a quantitative science.
Peter A Jones
Peter A Jones is a South African-born cancer epigenetics researcher whose discovery that 5-azacytidine inhibits DNA methylation led to the drug's 2004 approval for myelodysplastic syndrome.