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Ulf Gyllensten

Ulf Gyllensten is a Swedish geneticist and professor of medical molecular genetics at Uppsala University, known for the 2000 Nature study of human mitochondrial genome variation.

Ulf Lindahl

Ulf Lindahl, born in 1940, is a Swedish glycobiologist and emeritus professor at Uppsala University whose work on heparin's antithrombin-binding sequence underpinned low-molecular-weight heparin drugs.

Ulf Pettersson

Ulf Pettersson (1942–2024) was a Swedish molecular geneticist and virologist, professor of medical genetics at Uppsala University, known for his 1970s work on adenovirus DNA and RNA.

Ulf R. Rapp

Ulf R. Rapp, full name Ulf Rüdiger Rapp, is a molecular biologist and cancer researcher known for discovering the RAF oncogene and RAF/MYC cooperation in transformation.

Ulf von Euler

Ulf von Euler was a Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist who shared the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on chemical transmitters in nerves.

Ulrich Gehring

Ulrich Gehring (1935–2019) was a molecular biologist at UCSF and Heidelberg University known for genetic analysis of steroid hormone receptor defects and work on hsp70 molecular chaperones.

Ulrich H. von Andrian

Ulrich H. von Andrian is a German-trained immunologist who is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Immunopathology at Harvard Medical School, known for intravital microscopy and T cell migration.

Ulrich Hübscher

Ulrich Hübscher is a Swiss molecular biologist and biochemist at the University of Zurich known for his work on eukaryotic DNA polymerases and DNA repair.

Ulrich K. Laemmli

Ulrich K. Laemmli (U.K. Laemmli), born in Schaffhausen in 1940, is a Swiss molecular biologist who developed the standard SDS-PAGE protein method in 1970 and later studied chromosome scaffold structure at the University of Geneva.

Ulrich Müller

Ulrich Müller is a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University, a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor known for identifying the molecular machinery that cochlear hair cells use to convert sound into electrical signals.

Ulrich R. Christensen

Ulrich R. Christensen, born 1954, is a German geophysicist known for scaling laws of planetary magnetic fields and directorship at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research.

Ulrich Siebenlist

Ulrich "Uli" Siebenlist (1951–2020) was a German-born American molecular immunologist who spent his career at NIAID in Bethesda, Maryland, known for cloning NF-κB family members and defining how IκB-α releases NF-κB.

Ulrich Tepaß

Ulrich Tepaß is a German-trained cell biologist and full professor at the University of Toronto who, working on the fruit fly, identified Crumbs, a protein linked to inherited blindness.

Ulrich Westphal

Ulrich Westphal (born 3 May 1910) was a biochemist who worked as Adolf Butenandt's assistant and co-authored the 1934 isolation of progesterone in chemically pure form.

Ulrich Wolf

Ulrich Wolf, born 1933 in Riesa, Saxony, is a German human geneticist who co-described Wolf–Hirschhorn syndrome in 1965 and held the Freiburg genetics chair from 1972 to 2001.

Ulrik Gether

Ulrik Gether is a Danish neuroscientist, Professor of Neuropharmacology at the University of Copenhagen since 2001, known for work on the dopamine transporter and G protein-coupled receptors.

Ulrike A. Heberlein

Ulrike A. Heberlein is a Chilean-trained American neurogeneticist who introduced the fruit fly as a model for drug and alcohol addiction and won the 1998 PECASE award.

Ulrike Gaul

Ulrike Gaul (1960–2020) was a German developmental and systems biologist known for modeling Drosophila gene regulation; she led a lab at the Gene Center Munich from 2009.

Ulrike Kutay

Ulrike Kutay is a cell biologist and Full Professor of Biochemistry at ETH Zurich since 2011, studying the human cell nucleus, nucleocytoplasmic transport, and nuclear envelope function.

Umberto Veronesi

Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) was an Italian surgical oncologist whose Milan trials replaced radical mastectomy with breast-conserving surgery; he developed sentinel node biopsy, founded the European Institute of Oncology, and served as Italy's Minister of Health.

Umut Özcan

Umut Özcan, also published as Umut Ozcan, is a Turkish physician-scientist at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital who identified celastrol as a leptin-sensitizing obesity treatment.

Uno Lindberg

Uno Lindberg (died 2017) was a Swedish biochemist and cell biologist at Uppsala University, known for discovering profilin and for the DNase I inhibition assay measuring actin.

Uri Alon

Uri Alon is an Israeli systems biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, best known for discovering network motifs and design principles of biological circuits.

Uri Hasson

Uri Hasson is a cognitive neuroscientist and professor at Princeton University known for showing that brains synchronize during film viewing, and for testing whether deep language models process language like human brains.

Uriel Z. Littauer

Uriel Z. Littauer (1924–2012) was an Israeli molecular biologist and neuroscientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science who founded and chaired its Department of Neurobiology.

Urs F. Greber

Urs F. Greber is a Swiss cell biologist and virologist at the University of Zurich who studies how adenoviruses enter cells and deliver their genomes to the nucleus.

Urs Jenal

Urs Jenal is a Swiss microbiologist and Full Professor at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, known for research on the bacterial second messenger cyclic di-GMP.

Urs Rutishauser

Urs Rutishauser is a developmental neurobiologist known for defining NCAM, a neural cell adhesion molecule, and its polysialic acid modification as regulators of cell–cell interactions in the nervous system.

Ursula Bellugi

Ursula Bellugi was an American cognitive neuroscientist who founded the neurobiology of American Sign Language and became a leading expert on Williams syndrome at the Salk Institute.

Ursula Jakob

Ursula Jakob is a biochemist at the University of Michigan who studies how oxidants like bleach damage proteins; her lab discovered Hsp33, the first redox-regulated chaperone.