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Peter Karran
Peter Karran is a British-based molecular biologist who studied DNA mismatch repair and thiopurine mutagenesis at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund's Clare Hall Laboratories from 1985.
Peter Koopman
Peter Koopman is an Australian developmental geneticist at the University of Queensland, best known for his role in the discovery of SRY, the Y-chromosome gene that determines male sex in mammals.
Peter L. Pedersen
Peter L. Pedersen is an American biochemist and professor of biological chemistry at Johns Hopkins, known for research on mitochondrial hexokinase and the Warburg effect in cancer.
Péter Lengyel
Péter Lengyel, also known as Peter Lengyel, was a Hungarian-born American molecular biologist at Yale University whose laboratory discovered and named RNase L, the enzyme through which interferons block virus replication.
Peter M. Henson
Peter M. Henson is an immunologist and immunopathologist, Professor Emeritus at National Jewish Health in Denver, known for establishing how the body clears dying cells without inflammation.
Peter M. M. Rae
Peter M. M. Rae is a molecular biologist at Yale University known for characterizing the large intervening sequences interrupting Drosophila ribosomal DNA genes, publishing from 1970 to 1983.
Peter M. Steinert
Peter M. Steinert (1945–2003) was an Australian-born cell biologist who led the Laboratory of Skin Biology at the NIH and linked keratin mutations to blistering skin disease.
Peter Marler
Peter Marler (1928–2014) was a British-born American ethologist whose experiments showed songbirds learn their songs, established the auditory template hypothesis, and put animal communication on an experimental footing.
Peter Medawar
Peter Brian Medawar was a British immunologist and zoologist, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1915, who shared the 1960 Nobel Prize for discovering acquired immunological tolerance.
Peter Mitchell (biochemist)
Peter Mitchell (1920–1992) was a British biochemist who proposed the chemiosmotic theory, explaining how cells use proton gradients to make ATP, winning the 1978 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Peter Model
Peter Model (1933–2017) was a molecular geneticist at The Rockefeller University who studied bacteriophage f1, protein secretion, and the phage shock protein response, and contributed to phage display.
Peter Mombaerts
Peter Mombaerts is a Belgian-born neuroscientist who uses mouse genetics to study olfactory wiring, and received the 1997 Presidential Early Career Award at Rockefeller University.
Peter N. Devreotes
Peter N. Devreotes is an American cell biologist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine known for work on signal transduction, gradient sensing, and chemotaxis.
Peter N. Goodfellow
Peter N. Goodfellow is a geneticist who pinpointed SRY, the Y-chromosome gene that determines testis development, and later led discovery research at SmithKline Beecham and GlaxoSmithKline.
Peter Novick
Peter J. Novick is an American cell biologist, endowed professor at UC San Diego, known for dissecting the yeast secretory pathway and identifying Sec4, the first Rab protein controlling secretion.
Peter Olson
Peter Olson is an American geophysicist at Johns Hopkins University who studies the dynamics of Earth's mantle and core, including the geodynamo that generates the magnetic field.
Peter Parham
Peter Parham is a British-born immunogeneticist at Stanford University School of Medicine who defined the molecular basis of HLA class I polymorphism and pioneered the KIR receptor field.
Peter Quail
Peter H. Quail is a plant molecular biologist, Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, known for phytochrome research and his 1998 discovery of the transcription factor PIF3.
Peter Reddien
Peter Reddien, born 1974, is an American biologist who is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and studies how planarian flatworms regrow missing body parts using stem cells.
Peter Reichard
Peter Reichard (1925–2018) was a Swedish biochemist and Karolinska Institutet professor best known for discovering ribonucleotide reductase, the enzyme that supplies the four building blocks of DNA.
Peter S. Klein
Peter S. Klein is a physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies GSK-3, Wnt signaling, and hematopoietic stem cells, and showed lithium blocks amyloid-β production.
Peter S. Linsley
Peter S. Linsley is an American immunologist who showed that CTLA-4 is a second receptor for B7 and developed CTLA4Ig, which became the drug abatacept.
Peter S. McPherson
Peter S. McPherson is a Canadian neuroscientist at McGill University's Montreal Neurological Institute who identified key proteins in clathrin-mediated endocytosis and linked membrane trafficking to ataxia, ALS, and epilepsy.
Peter Sarnow
Peter Sarnow is a molecular biologist and Stanford professor known for work on the hepatitis C virus IRES and for identifying the liver microRNA miR-122 as essential for HCV replication.
Péter Somogyi
Péter Somogyi, born in Hungary in 1950, is a Hungarian-British neurobiologist and Emeritus Professor at Oxford known for classifying hippocampal interneurons and winning the 2011 Brain Prize.
Peter Starlinger
Peter Starlinger (1931–2017) was a German geneticist and molecular biologist at the University of Cologne whose group sequenced McClintock's maize transposable elements Ac and Ds in the 1980s.
Peter Sterling (neuroscientist)
Peter Sterling (born 1940) is an American neuroscientist, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, who pioneered 3D electron-microscopic reconstruction of retinal circuits and developed allostasis.
Peter Strick
Peter L. Strick is an American systems neuroscientist at the University of Pittsburgh who maps brain circuits controlling movement and organs, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2012.
Peter ten Dijke
Peter ten Dijke is a Dutch molecular cell biologist known for work on TGF-β signaling and SMAD proteins, and professor of molecular cell biology at Leiden University Medical Center.
Peter Turnbaugh
Peter Turnbaugh is an American microbiome researcher and professor at UCSF known for showing that the gut microbiome of obese mice transmits increased energy harvest.