Life scientists

Philippa Marrack

Philippa Marrack is an immunologist at National Jewish Health in Denver and the University of Colorado, known for isolating the T-cell receptor, thymic tolerance, and superantigens.

Oct 10, 2026

Philippe Ascher

Philippe Ascher (1936–2022) was a French neuroscientist who showed that magnesium blocks the NMDA receptor's channel and that glycine acts as its co-agonist, keys to learning and memory mechanisms.

Philippe Bousso (1971–2026) was a French immunologist who led the Dynamics of Immune Responses laboratory at the Institut Pasteur and pioneered intravital two-photon microscopy of immune cells in living tissue.

Philippe Chavrier

Philippe Chavrier is a French cell biologist who leads a research team at Institut Curie in Paris, studying how breast tumor cells invade surrounding tissue through the enzyme MT1-MMP.

Oct 10, 2026

Philippe Horvath

Philippe Horvath, born 1970, is a French biologist at the food company Danisco who gave the first experimental proof that CRISPR is a bacterial immune system.

Philippe I. H. Bastiaens

Philippe I. H. Bastiaens was a Dutch cell biologist who directed systemic cell biology at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund until his death in 2025.

Philippe Kourilsky

Philippe Kourilsky, born in 1942, is a French immunologist and genetic engineer who held the Collège de France chair of molecular immunology from 1998 to 2012.

Philippe Lemey

Philippe Lemey, born 1977 in Kortrijk, is a Belgian computational biologist and professor at KU Leuven's Rega Institute, known for reconstructing viral spread from genetic sequences and for contributions to the BEAST software.

Philippe Pierre

Philippe Pierre is a French cell biologist and immunologist who studies dendritic cells and innate immunity at the Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (CIML) in Marseille, and is known for the SUnSET, SunRiSE, and Scenith flow-cytometry methods.

Philippe Sansonetti

Philippe J. Sansonetti (born 1949) is a French microbiologist, Professor Emeritus at the Institut Pasteur and the Collège de France, known for his work on Shigella pathogenesis.

Philippe Soriano

Philippe Soriano is a developmental biologist and mouse geneticist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, best known for discovering the ROSA26 locus and creating the R26R Cre reporter mouse strain.

Phillip A. Sharp

Phillip A. Sharp, born 1944, is an American molecular biologist at MIT who shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering split genes.

Phillip D. Zamore

Phillip D. Zamore is an American RNA biologist at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School whose 2000 work on RNA interference helped establish how small RNAs silence genes.

Phillip T. Hawkins

Phillip Hawkins is a British biochemist who studies PI3K signaling enzymes at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2013.

Phillip V. Tobias

Phillip V. Tobias (1925–2012) was a South African palaeoanthropologist and anatomist who held the anatomy chair at the University of the Witwatersrand, led the Sterkfontein excavations, and helped name Homo habilis in 1964.

Phillip W. Berman

Phillip W. Berman is an American virologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Cruz, best known for inventing the AIDSVAX HIV vaccine used in the RV144 trial.

Phillips W. Robbins

Phillips W. Robbins (1930–2026) was an American biochemist and glycobiologist, a National Academy of Sciences member who worked at MIT for nearly 40 years and later at Boston University.

Phoebe A. Rice

Phoebe A. Rice is an American structural biologist and professor at the University of Chicago known for structures of the Mu transposase and DNA-bending protein IHF.

Phuong Chung

Phuong Chung is a research scientist in Drosophila neurogenetics at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus since 2006, in Julie Simpson's lab, known for co-developing Drosophila Brainbow and BrainAligner and circuit studies of fly behaviors.

Phyllis A. Dennery

Phyllis A. Dennery is an American physician-scientist in neonatology and lung biology who chairs pediatrics at Brown University and has studied bronchopulmonary dysplasia for over 35 years.

Phyllis Jean Kanki

Phyllis Jean Kanki is a virologist and Harvard School of Public Health professor known for her Senegal research on HIV-2 and for building HIV treatment capacity in Nigeria.

Phyllis Speiser

Phyllis Speiser is an American pediatric endocrinologist at Northwell Health known for her research on congenital adrenal hyperplasia and for chairing the 2018 Endocrine Society guideline.

Piali Sengupta

Piali Sengupta is an American neuroscientist and geneticist, Professor of Biology at Brandeis University, who studies how the roundworm C. elegans detects odors, temperature, and salt.

Pico Caroni

Pico Caroni, born 1952 in Locarno, Switzerland, is a Swiss neurobiologist at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel known for discovering Nogo-A and for work on synaptic plasticity and learning.

Pier Giuseppe Pelicci

Pier Giuseppe Pelicci, born in 1956, is an Italian molecular oncologist known for research on the Shc gene, p66Shc and longevity, and p53 in stem cells, based at IEO in Milan.

Pier Paolo Di Fiore

Pier Paolo Di Fiore is an Italian molecular oncologist at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan known for showing how endocytosis regulates cancer signaling.

Pier Vincenzo Piazza

Pier Vincenzo Piazza, born 1961 in Palermo, is a Franco-Italian psychiatrist and Inserm research director who demonstrated individual vulnerability to addiction and developed AEF0117 for cannabis use disorder.

Pierluigi Gambetti

Pierluigi Gambetti is an Italian-trained neuropathologist at Case Western Reserve University known for establishing fatal familial insomnia as a prion disease and classifying sporadic prion diseases into molecular subtypes.

Piero Sanfilippo

Piero Sanfilippo is an Italian-born biologist who studies RNA regulation and Drosophila neurogenetics, and has been a postdoctoral associate in the Zipursky Lab at UCLA since 2017.