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Pontus Skoglund
Pontus Skoglund is a population geneticist who leads the Ancient Genomics Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in London, using ancient DNA to study human evolution, dogs, and disease outbreaks.
Poppy Crum
Poppy Crum is a neuroscientist who served as Chief Scientist at Dolby Laboratories from 2010 to 2021 and is now an adjunct professor at Stanford University.
Poul Nissen
Poul Nissen, born 1967 in Denmark, is a structural biologist and professor at Aarhus University known for the first atomic structure of the sodium–potassium pump and the 2017 Novo Nordisk Prize.
Pramod K. Srivastava
Pramod K. Srivastava is an American cancer immunologist who directs the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center at UConn Health and pioneered heat shock protein cancer vaccines.
Prashant Mali
Prashant Mali is an American bioengineer and professor at UC San Diego who helped pioneer CRISPR DNA editing and ADAR RNA editing tools for biology and therapeutics.
Pravinkumar B. Sehgal
Pravinkumar B. Sehgal, also published as P. B. Sehgal, is an Indian-born American virologist who discovered interleukin-6 and is a professor at New York Medical College.
Preete Verghese
Preeti Verghese is an American vision scientist who is Chief Scientific Officer at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, known for a signal detection theory of visual search.
Prem Puri
Prem Puri, also known as Pier Lorenzo Puri, is a professor at Sanford Burnham Prebys whose research on HDAC inhibitors led to givinostat, approved in 2024 for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Prescott L. Deininger
Prescott L. Deininger is an American molecular geneticist at Tulane University School of Medicine, known for his work on Alu elements and L1 retrotransposons, mobile DNA sequences that drive genetic instability in cancer.
Prisca Liberali
Prisca Liberali is a Swiss-based systems and developmental biologist who studies how identical cells self-organize into complex tissues, using intestinal organoids as her main model.
Prosanta Chakrabarty
Prosanta Chakrabarty is an American ichthyologist and Curator of Fishes at Louisiana State University who studies the fish tree of life, especially cavefishes, and has described at least 15 fish species.
Pu Gao
Pu Gao (高璞) is a Chinese structural immunologist and professor at the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, known for structural studies of immune responses to aberrant nucleic acids.
Pui–Yan Kwok
Pui–Yan Kwok is a human geneticist who developed single-molecule methods for reading haplotypes and assembling whole human genomes, and who led the Taiwan Precision Medicine Initiative.
Pura Muñoz-Cánoves
Pura Muñoz-Cánoves (born 1962) is a Spanish cell biologist who studies how skeletal muscle regenerates and why it fails in aging and muscular dystrophies, now at Altos Labs.
Purnell W. Choppin
Purnell W. Choppin (1929–2021) was an American virologist who led Rockefeller University's Laboratory of Virology and served as president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Q. Richard Lu
Q. Richard Lu, also known as Richard Lu, is a researcher in cancer epigenetics known for discovering Olig1 and Olig2 and for work on brain tumors and myelin repair.
Qais Al‐Awqati
Qais Al-Awqati is a Professor of Medicine and of Physiology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, known for identifying the kidney's two intercalated cell types and hensin, whose deletion causes distal renal tubular acidosis.
Qi‐Long Ying
Qi-Long Ying is a stem cell biologist and professor at the University of Southern California known for defining embryonic stem cell self-renewal conditions and deriving the first rat embryonic stem cells.
Qiang Zhou
Qiang Zhou is a molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology at UC Berkeley, known for work on P-TEFb and HIV transcription.
Qiangjun Zhou
Qiangjun Zhou is a structural biologist and assistant professor at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, known for atomic-resolution structures of the SNARE, synaptotagmin, and complexin complexes.
Qiao Zhou
Qiao Zhou, known as Joe Zhou, is an American stem cell biologist at Weill Cornell Medicine known for reprogramming pancreatic cells into insulin-producing beta cells.
Qiaolin Deng
Qiaolin Deng is a developmental biologist at Karolinska Institutet who develops single-cell RNA sequencing methods and studies how maternal diabetes and PCOS affect offspring health.
Qibin Qi
Qibin Qi is a molecular and genetic epidemiologist and professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, known for gene–diet interaction studies of obesity and diabetes.
Qifa Zhang (张启发)
Qifa Zhang (张启发), born 1953, is a Chinese plant geneticist at Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan known for rice functional genomics and the Green Super Rice concept.
Qijing Zhang
Qijing Zhang is a veterinary molecular microbiologist at Iowa State University known for research on Campylobacter and antimicrobial resistance, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.
Qing Nie
Qing Nie is a computational and systems biologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Irvine, known for CellChat, an open-source tool inferring cell-cell communication from single-cell data.
Qing Yin Zheng
Qing Yin Zheng is a deafness geneticist who holds associate professorships in otolaryngology and genetics at Case Western Reserve University, studying mouse models of inherited human hearing loss.
Qingbo Xu
Qingbo Xu is a cardiovascular scientist known for work on heat-shock protein antibodies and stem cells in atherosclerosis, holding a BHF chair in London since 2006.
Quanyin Hu
Quanyin Hu is a drug delivery and nanomedicine researcher who engineers platelets and cell derivatives as vehicles for cancer immunotherapy, leading the CIPT Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Pharmacy.
Quentin Gibson
Quentin Gibson, full name Quentin Howieson Gibson (1918–2011), was a British-born biochemist who spent most of his career in the United States studying rapid-reaction kinetics and hemoglobin.