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Pierre A. Henkart

Pierre A. Henkart is an immunologist at the National Cancer Institute, NIH, known for work on lymphocyte-mediated cytotoxicity and for helping propose the granule exocytosis model.

Pierre Chambon

Pierre Chambon (1931–2026) was a French molecular biologist and biochemist who discovered the nucleosome, split genes, and enhancers, cloned nuclear hormone receptors, and won the Lasker Award.

Pierre Goloubinoff

Pierre Goloubinoff, born 1957 in France, is a biochemist who studies molecular chaperones, known for 1989 Nature papers on GroEL and GroES in Rubisco folding.

Pierre Golstein

Pierre Golstein, born 1939 in Paris, is a French immunologist known for discovering the CTLA-4 protein in 1987 and for work on how cytotoxic T cells kill targets.

Pierre Gönczy

Pierre Gönczy, born 1962, is a cell biologist and full professor at EPFL in Lausanne whose laboratory studies centriole assembly and asymmetric cell division in C. elegans.

Pierre Joliot

Pierre Joliot (1932–2026), French biologist, grandson of Pierre and Marie Curie; pioneer of photosynthesis research, co-namesake of the Kok–Joliot water-oxidation model, CNRS Gold Medal 1982, Collège de France professor.

Pierre Léopold

Pierre Léopold is a French developmental biologist at Institut Curie in Paris who studies how organs coordinate growth in the fruit fly, and discovered the hormone Dilp8.

Pierre Maquet

Pierre Maquet, born 1961, is a Belgian neurologist and cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Liège known for neuroimaging studies of sleep, dreaming, and memory consolidation.

Pierre Vanderhaeghen

Pierre Vanderhaeghen is a Belgian developmental neuroscientist who studies how human cortical neurons are generated and which human-specific genes drive that process, leading a lab at VIB-KU Leuven.

Pierre‐Marie Lledo

Pierre-Marie Lledo is a French neuroscientist who chairs the Department of Neuroscience at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, known for work on adult neurogenesis and gut–brain signaling.

Piet A. J. de Boer

Piet A. J. de Boer is a microbiologist and professor at Case Western Reserve University known for work on how Escherichia coli selects and builds its division site.

Piet Borst

Piet Borst, born 1934 in Amsterdam, is a Dutch physician-biochemist who directed the Netherlands Cancer Institute and is known for mitochondrial DNA, trypanosome immune evasion, and P-glycoprotein knockout studies, winning the 2023 Lasker-Koshland Award.

Piet Herdewijn

Piet Herdewijn is a Belgian chemist-bologist, born in Aalst in 1954, an emeritus professor of medicinal chemistry at KU Leuven's Rega Institute known for antiviral nucleosides and xeno nucleic acids.

Pieter C. Wensink

Pieter C. Wensink was an American molecular biologist and professor emeritus of biochemistry at Brandeis University, known for mapping Drosophila chromosomes and dissecting sex-specific gene regulation; he died in 2012.

Pieter Cullis

Pieter Cullis is a Canadian biochemist and professor at the University of British Columbia whose lab developed ionizable lipids that made lipid nanoparticles workable for delivering mRNA drugs.

Pieter R. Roelfsema

Pieter R. Roelfsema is a Dutch neuroscientist who leads the Vision and Cognition group at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam, studying visual perception.

Pieter Rein ten Wolde

Pieter Rein ten Wolde (born 1970) is a Dutch biophysicist who leads the Biochemical Networks group at AMOLF and is a professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Pietro De Camilli

Pietro De Camilli is an Italian-born American neuroscientist at Yale School of Medicine and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, known for work on synaptic vesicle recycling and Stiff-Man syndrome.

Pietro Tullio

Pietro Tullio (1881–1941) was an Italian physiologist who directed the Laboratory of Experimental Physiology in Bologna and gave his name to the Tullio phenomenon, sound-induced vertigo.

Pina Fratamico

Pina M. Fratamico is an American food-safety microbiologist at the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Philadelphia, known for rapid detection methods for E. coli O157:H7.

Ping He

Ping He (何平) is a plant scientist who studies plant innate immunity in Arabidopsis, now a professor at the University of Michigan after nearly a decade at Texas A&M.

Ping-Chih Ho

Ping-Chih Ho is a Taiwanese cancer immunologist and full professor at the University of Lausanne, known for showing that tumor cells evade immunity through metabolic competition.

Piotr K Kopinski

Piotr K Kopinski (also spelled Kopiński) is a Polish mitochondrial-genetics researcher and physician-scientist in training who studied mitochondria-to-nucleus signaling in Douglas C. Wallace's laboratory at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Piotr P. Słonimski

Piotr P. Słonimski (1922–2009) was a Polish-born French molecular geneticist who founded mitochondrial genetics, working on yeast, and directed the CNRS Centre de génétique moléculaire at Gif-sur-Yvette.

Piro Lito

Piro Lito is a physician-scientist and thoracic medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center whose research on KRAS-mutant cancers helped bring the first mutant-selective KRAS drugs to patients.

Pirulla

Pirulla, also written Pirula, is the online name of Paulo Miranda Nascimento, a Brazilian biologist, paleontologist, and science YouTuber whose channel passed 1 million subscribers in 2022.

Piyush Gupta

Piyush B. Gupta is a cancer biologist who leads a lab at the Whitehead Institute and MIT, known for identifying salinomycin as a selective killer of breast cancer stem cells.

Po-Ru Loh

Po-Ru Loh is a statistical geneticist who develops computational methods for large-scale human genetics data as an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute.

Pol Bouin

Pol Bouin (André Pol Bouin, 1870–1962) was a French histologist and reproductive biologist who described Bouin's fixative in 1897 and, with Paul Ancel, founded reproductive endocrinology.

Polly Matzinger

Polly Matzinger is an American immunologist at NIH best known for the danger model, which holds that the immune system responds to damage rather than foreignness.