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Peter V. Kharchenko

Peter V. Kharchenko is a computational biologist and Gilbert S. Omenn Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, known for single-cell RNA sequencing tools like Conos and velocyto.

Peter Vandenabeele

Peter Vandenabeele is a Belgian cell death researcher, senior full professor at Ghent University who leads the Cell Death and Inflammation Unit at VIB-UGent, studying necroptosis and inflammation.

Peter von Hippel

Peter H. von Hippel is an American molecular biologist and biophysical chemist, emeritus professor at the University of Oregon, known for kinetic studies of transcription and DNA replication.

Peter W. Andrews

Peter W. Andrews, also known as P. W. Andrews, is a biologist at the University of Sheffield known for characterizing stem cell surface markers like SSEA3 and TRA-1-60.

Peter W. Baas

Peter W. Baas is a cell biologist and neuroscientist, professor at Drexel University College of Medicine since 2000, known for showing how microtubules are organized in neurons.

Peter W. Gage

Peter W. Gage (1937–2005) was a New Zealand-born Australian membrane physiologist and neuroscientist who studied ion channels at UNSW and the Australian National University and helped found the biotechnology company Biotron.

Peter W. Halligan

Peter W. Halligan is an Irish neuropsychologist and Honorary Professor at Cardiff University, known for work on visual neglect and malingering, who served as Chief Scientific Adviser for Wales from 2018 to 2022.

Peter W. Hochachka

Peter W. Hochachka (1937–2002) was a Canadian zoologist at the University of British Columbia who founded adaptational biochemistry, the study of how animals survive low oxygen.

Peter W. Kalivas

Peter W. Kalivas is an American neuroscientist at the Medical University of South Carolina who established glutamate signaling as a central mechanism of drug addiction and relapse.

Peter Walter

Peter Walter is a German-born biochemist and cell biologist known for discovering the signal recognition particle and defining the unfolded protein response, honored with the 2014 Lasker and 2018 Breakthrough Prizes.

Peter Weisbeek

Peter J. Weisbeek, born 1943 in Groningen, is a Dutch molecular biologist and professor of molecular genetics at Utrecht University, known for chloroplast protein targeting research.

Peter William Jack Rigby

Peter William Jack Rigby, known as Peter Rigby, is a British molecular biologist who studies gene regulation in embryonic development and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2010.

Peter Wright (structural biologist)

Peter Wright is a structural biologist and NMR spectroscopist at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for showing that intrinsically disordered proteins fold as they bind their targets.

Peter Y. Chou

Peter Y. Chou is a protein chemist who, with Gerald D. Fasman at Brandeis University, published the 1974 Chou–Fasman method, an early and widely cited protein structure prediction approach.

Petr Broz

Petr Broz (Petr Brož) is an immunologist and Full Professor at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, known for work on inflammasome activation and pyroptosis during bacterial infection.

Petr Cejka

Petr Cejka is a molecular biologist leading the Recombination Mechanisms group at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Bellinzona, Switzerland, studying DNA repair by homologous recombination.

Philip A. Beachy

Philip A. Beachy is an American developmental biologist at Stanford University whose research established how the Hedgehog signaling pathway patterns embryos and can be targeted in cancer.

Philip A. Cole

Philip A. Cole is an American chemical biologist, a professor at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital since 2017, known for co-developing expressed protein ligation.

Philip A. Wigge

Philip A. Wigge is a plant scientist who studies how plants sense temperature, professor at the University of Potsdam and department head at the Leibniz Institute of Horticultural Sciences since 2018.

Philip Ashton-Rickardt

Philip Ashton-Rickardt is an immunologist known for defining how long-lived memory CD8 T cells arise from cytotoxic effector cells, formerly a professor at the University of Chicago and Imperial College London.

Philip Bard

Philip Bard, born Archibald Philip Bard (1898–1977), was an American physiologist at Johns Hopkins known for the Cannon–Bard theory of emotion and for locating rage in the hypothalamus.

Philip Benfey

Philip N. Benfey was an American plant developmental biologist at Duke University who showed how root cells acquire their positions and fates through the genes SHORT-ROOT and SCARECROW.

Philip C. Bevilacqua

Philip C. Bevilacqua is an American RNA biochemist and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Pennsylvania State University, known for ribozyme catalysis and RNA folding research.

Philip C. Hanawalt

Philip C. Hanawalt, also cited as Philip Hanawalt, is an American molecular biologist at Stanford University who co-discovered nucleotide excision repair in 1963 and transcription-coupled repair.

Philip Coffino

Philip Coffino (P. Coffino) is a molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at UCSF, known for genetic analysis of cAMP signaling and discovering ubiquitin-independent proteasomal degradation of ornithine decarboxylase.

Philip Cohen (biochemist)

Philip Cohen is a British biochemist at the University of Dundee, knighted in 1998, whose work established protein phosphorylation as a central mechanism of cellular regulation.

Philip D. Greenberg

Philip D. Greenberg is an American immunologist and oncologist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle whose laboratory developed T cell receptor engineering for cancer therapy.

Philip D. Stahl

Philip D. Stahl is an American cell biologist at Washington University in St. Louis known for discovering the macrophage mannose receptor and for work on receptor-mediated endocytosis.

Philip E. Dawson

Philip E. Dawson is a protein chemist and professor at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for pioneering native chemical ligation, a key method for chemically synthesizing proteins.

Philip Edward Smith

Philip Edward Smith (1884–1970) was an American endocrinologist and anatomist who established the pituitary gland's hormonal control of growth, the thyroid, and reproduction, and taught anatomy at Columbia.