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Peter E. Nielsen
Peter E. Nielsen (Peter Eigil Nielsen), born 1951, is a professor at the University of Copenhagen who invented the DNA mimic peptide nucleic acid (PNA) in 1991.
Peter Ekblom
Peter Ekblom is a developmental biologist known for research on laminin and epithelial tissue formation during kidney organogenesis, carried out at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory in Tübingen.
Peter Elsbach
Peter Elsbach is a physician-scientist at New York University School of Medicine whose research, from 1959 into the 2000s, centered on how phagocytic white blood cells kill bacteria, especially the bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein.
Peter F. Leadlay
Peter F. Leadlay (P F Leadlay) is a British biochemist at Cambridge known for his work on polyketide synthases, the enzyme assembly lines that build antibiotics.
Peter Fraser
Peter Fraser is a molecular biologist who studies how 3D chromatin folding controls gene expression, having led the Nuclear Dynamics program at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge.
Peter Friedl
Peter Friedl is a cell biologist who holds the chair for Microscopical Imaging of the Cell at Radboud University in Nijmegen, known for discovering collective cancer cell invasion.
Peter G. Gillespie
Peter G. Gillespie, who publishes as Peter G. Barr-Gillespie, is an American sensory neuroscientist at OHSU's Vollum Institute known for work on inner-ear hair-cell mechanotransduction.
Peter G. Wolynes
Peter G. Wolynes, born 1953, is an American theoretical chemist at Rice University known for the first analytical theory of protein folding and the random first-order transition theory of glasses.
Peter Garred
Peter Garred is a Danish clinical immunologist and professor at Rigshospitalet and the University of Copenhagen, known for research on mannose-binding lectin and ficolins in innate immunity.
Peter Gruss
Peter Gruss (Peter Gruß), born 1949, is a German developmental biologist known for Pax gene research and president of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft from 2002 to 2014.
Peter H. Byers
Peter H. Byers, also published as Peter Byers, is an American medical geneticist at the University of Washington known for research on inherited connective-tissue disorders.
Peter H. Fishman
Peter H. Fishman is an NIH biochemist at NINDS whose research established how gangliosides are synthesized and reported the first human disease of defective ganglioside biosynthesis.
Peter H. Hackett
Peter H. Hackett is an American physician specializing in high-altitude medicine, based in Telluride, Colorado, known for altitude illness research and field medicine in Nepal and on Denali.
Peter H. Krammer
Peter H. Krammer (P. H. Krammer), born in 1946, is a German immunologist at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg known for discovering the CD95 (APO-1/Fas) death-receptor system.
Peter H. Schiller
Peter H. Schiller (1931–2023) was an American visual neuroscientist who spent his career at MIT, establishing the roles of the ON and OFF channels of vision.
Peter H. Seeburg
Peter H. Seeburg (1944–2016) was a German molecular biologist and neuroscientist who pioneered cloning human hormone genes, then helped found molecular neurobiology through work on GABA-A and glutamate receptors and RNA editing.
Peter Hagoort
Peter Hagoort, born in 1954, is a Dutch cognitive neuroscientist known for the Memory-Unification-Control model of language and for directing the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
Peter Hegemann
Peter Hegemann, born 1954 in Münster, is a German biophysicist at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin who discovered channelrhodopsins, the light-gated ion channels behind optogenetics, and shared the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Peter Herrlich
Peter Herrlich, born 1940 in Munich, is a German molecular biologist known for work on signal transduction, the UV response, and CD44 splice variants in tumor metastasis.
Peter Hess (biophysicist)
Peter Hess was an ion-channel biophysicist at Yale and Harvard Medical School whose 1984 Nature paper explained how calcium channels select and conduct ions, using single-channel recordings of cardiac cells.
Peter J. Bryant
Peter J. Bryant, also published as P J Bryant, is a developmental biologist and Research Professor at UC Irvine known for work on growth control and tumor-suppressor genes in the fruit fly Drosophila.
Peter J. Espenshade
Peter J. Espenshade is an American cell biologist and professor at Johns Hopkins known for showing that the SREBP pathway controls cholesterol feedback and oxygen sensing.
Peter J. Fischinger
Peter J. Fischinger is a virologist with M.D. and Ph.D. degrees who worked at the National Cancer Institute on murine retroviruses and later on HIV and AIDS vaccine research.
Peter J. Hollenbeck
Peter J. Hollenbeck is a cellular neurobiologist known for his work on mitochondrial transport along nerve cell axons, with faculty appointments at Harvard Medical School and Purdue University.
Peter J. Peters
Peter J. Peters is a Dutch cell biologist known for discovering the MHC class II compartment and for showing that tuberculosis bacteria translocate to the host cell's cytosol.
Peter J. Ratcliffe
Peter J. Ratcliffe, also known as Peter Ratcliffe, is a British physician-scientist and nephrologist at Oxford who discovered how cells sense oxygen, winning the 2019 Nobel Prize.
Peter Jonas (neuroscientist)
Peter Jonas (born 1961) is a German neuroscientist studying synaptic transmission and hippocampal microcircuits, a professor at ISTA in Austria since 2010 and a Wittgenstein Award winner.
Peter K. Hepler
Peter K. Hepler is an American plant cell biologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known for work on cytokinesis and calcium signaling.
Peter K. Vogt
Peter K. Vogt, born 1932 in Czechoslovakia, is an American cancer virologist and professor emeritus at Scripps Research who helped identify src, the first retroviral oncogene.
Peter K. Wellauer
Peter K. Wellauer is a molecular biologist known for mapping the structural organization of ribosomal DNA in Drosophila and Xenopus by electron microscopy at the Carnegie Institution in Baltimore.