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Edward T. Bullmore

Edward T. Bullmore, known as Ed Bullmore, is a British psychiatrist and neuroscientist who became Regius Professor of Psychiatry at King's College London in 2025.

Edward Tatum

Edward Lawrie Tatum (1909–1975) was an American biochemical geneticist who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that genes act by regulating chemical events.

Edward Tuckerman

Edward Tuckerman (1817–1886) was an American botanist and lichen expert, professor of botany at Amherst College, so dominant that 1847–1888 is called the Tuckermanian Period; Tuckerman's Ravine on Mount Washington is named for him.

Edward V. Prochownik

Edward V. Prochownik is an American physician-scientist and molecular biologist who directs oncology research at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, known for showing that deregulated c-myc blocks blood-cell differentiation.

Edward Yu

Edward Yu is an American structural biologist at Case Western Reserve University known for determining the crystal structures of the E. coli CusA heavy-metal efflux pump.

Edwin Cuppen

Edwin Cuppen is a Dutch molecular geneticist in cancer genomics, professor of Human Genetics at UMC Utrecht and scientific director of the Hartwig Medical Foundation since 2017.

Edwin Furshpan

Edwin Furshpan, known as Ed Furshpan, was an American neurobiologist and Harvard Medical School professor who discovered electrical synaptic transmission and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1982.

Edwin G. Abel

Edwin G. Abel, known as Ted Abel, is an American neuroscientist studying the molecular mechanisms of memory storage; he directs the Iowa Neuroscience Institute and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019.

Edwin G. Krebs

Edwin G. Krebs (1918–2009) was an American biochemist who shared the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that cells regulate proteins by phosphorylation.

Edwin Grant Conklin

Edwin Grant Conklin was an American embryologist known for tracing cell lineages in marine eggs and arguing that the egg's cytoplasm, not only its nucleus, directs early development.

Edwin L. Ferguson

Edwin L. Ferguson is an American molecular geneticist and University of Chicago professor known for showing that Dpp acts as a morphogen patterning the fruit fly embryo.

Edwin Milgröm

Edwin Milgröm is a French molecular endocrinologist whose laboratory at Inserm and Bicêtre Hospital defined how steroid hormone receptors act in the cell and how RU 486 blocks progesterone.

Edwin O. Jordan

Edwin O. Jordan (1866–1936) was an American bacteriologist who built the University of Chicago's bacteriology program, led the Society of American Bacteriologists, and analyzed the 1918 influenza pandemic.

Edwin R. Chapman

Edwin R. Chapman is a neuroscientist and HHMI investigator at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose lab identified synaptotagmin-1 as the calcium sensor triggering rapid synaptic vesicle release.

Edwin S. Levitan

Edwin S. Levitan is a neuroscientist and professor of pharmacology at the University of Pittsburgh who studies how neuropeptides are delivered to and released from synapses.

Edwin Southern

Edwin Southern, born in 1938, is a British molecular biologist and Fellow of the Royal Society best known for inventing the Southern blot and pioneering DNA microarrays.

Edwin Stephen Goodrich

Edwin Stephen Goodrich (1868–1946) was a British zoologist who held the Linacre chair of zoology at Oxford and proposed the segmental theory of the vertebrate head.

Effie W. Petersdorf

Effie W. Petersdorf is a transplant physician-scientist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle whose registry-scale HLA matching studies established the 8/8 match standard for unrelated donor transplantation.

Efraim Racker

Efraim Racker (1913–1991) was an Austrian-born American biochemist at Cornell who resolved and reconstituted the enzymes of oxidative phosphorylation, discovered F1 ATPase, and helped demonstrate chemiosmotic coupling.

Egas Moniz

Egas Moniz (1874–1955) was a Portuguese neurologist and statesman who invented cerebral angiography in 1927 and devised prefrontal leucotomy in 1935, winning the 1949 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Ege T. Kavalali

Ege T. Kavalali, also known as Ege Kavalali, is a Turkish-born neuroscientist and Chair of Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University, known for establishing spontaneous neurotransmission as a distinct signaling pathway.

Egle Cekanaviciute

Egle Cekanaviciute is a neuroimmunologist and space biologist at NASA's Ames Research Center, known for 2017 PNAS studies showing gut bacteria from MS patients worsen autoimmune brain disease in mice.

Ehud Ahissar

Ehud Ahissar is a neuroscientist and emeritus professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, known for research on active sensing and whisker-based tactile perception.

Ehud Y. Isacoff

Ehud Y. Isacoff is a neuroscientist at UC Berkeley who studies ion channels, synapse assembly, and chemical optogenetics, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.

Eicke Latz

Eicke Latz, born 1970 in Wiesbaden, is a German immunologist known for NLRP3 inflammasome research; since 2023 he has led the German Rheumatism Research Centre Berlin.

Eiichi Ohtsubo

Eiichi Ohtsubo (大坪 栄一) was a Japanese molecular geneticist known for sequencing bacterial insertion sequences and transposon Tn3, largely at Stony Brook and the University of Tokyo.

Eileen D. Adamson

Eileen D. Adamson, also published as E. D. Adamson, is a molecular biologist and professor at the Burnham Institute in San Diego who studied teratocarcinoma stem cell differentiation.

Eileen E. M. Furlong

Eileen E. M. Furlong is a developmental genomics biologist who heads the Genome Biology Unit at EMBL Heidelberg, known for work on developmental enhancers and the 2022 Leibniz Prize.

Eiman Azim

Eiman Azim is an American neuroscientist at the Salk Institute who studies how neural circuits control skilled movements such as reaching and grasping, and received a 2017 PECASE award.

Eimear E. Kenny

Eimear E. Kenny, also known as Eimear Kenny, is an Irish-born population and medical geneticist who directs the Institute for Genomic Health at Mount Sinai in New York.