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Ellen A. Robey
Ellen A. Robey (Ellen Robey) is an American immunologist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for defining Notch signaling's role in T cell lineage choices in the thymus.
Ellen Fanning
Ellen Fanning was a biochemist at Vanderbilt University whose research explained how mammalian cells control DNA replication, working on SV40, DNA polymerase alpha-primase, and PCNA until her death in 2013.
Ellen Jorgensen
Ellen Jorgensen is an American molecular biologist who co-founded Genspace in Brooklyn in 2010, the first publicly accessible community biotechnology laboratory, and later founded Biotech Without Borders.
Ellen R. Wald
Ellen R. Wald is an American pediatric infectious disease physician-scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for research on sinusitis, otitis media, and urinary tract infections in children.
Ellen S. Vitetta
Ellen S. Vitetta is an American immunologist and Professor Emeritus at UT Southwestern in Dallas, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1994, known for B cell biology and antibody-based cancer therapies.
Ellen Solomon
Ellen Solomon is a British human and cancer geneticist at King's College London known for her work on breast cancer genetics and acute promyelocytic leukemia.
Ellen V. Rothenberg
Ellen V. Rothenberg is a molecular immunologist at Caltech known for decoding the gene networks that drive T-cell development; she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.
Elliot L. Elson
Elliot L. Elson is an American biochemist and biophysicist, professor emeritus at Washington University School of Medicine, who co-developed fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and FRAP and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.
Elliot M. Meyerowitz
Elliot Meyerowitz is an American plant developmental biologist, the George W. Beadle Professor at Caltech, known for establishing Arabidopsis as a model organism and the ABC model of flower development.
Elliott Kieff
Elliott Kieff (1943–2024) was an American virologist who established the molecular biology of Epstein–Barr virus and its role in cancer, leading virology at Harvard and Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Ellis Englesberg
Ellis Englesberg (1921–2013) was an American bacterial geneticist best known for discovering positive control of gene expression, showing that regulatory proteins can switch genes on, through his genetic analysis of the E. coli arabinose operon.
Ellis L. Reinherz
Ellis L. Reinherz is an immunologist, Chief of the Laboratory of Immunobiology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard professor, known for defining human T-cell functional subsets and T-cell receptor structure.
Elly Tanaka
Elly M. Tanaka, born 1965 in Boston, is an Austrian-based regeneration biologist who studies axolotl limb and spinal cord regeneration and directs IMBA in Vienna since 2024.
Elmer Drew Merrill
Elmer Drew Merrill (1876–1956) was an American botanist who described over 3,000 Far Eastern plant species, built the Manila herbarium, and directed the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard.
Elsa R. Flores
Elsa R. Flores is a cancer biologist and Senior Member in Molecular Oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida, known for establishing p63 and p73 as tumor suppressors.
Elsebet Lund
Elsebet Lund is a molecular biologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for work on ribosomal RNA processing in E. coli and nuclear export of small RNAs.
Elvin C. Stakman
Elvin C. Stakman (1885–1979) was an American plant pathologist at the University of Minnesota who established methods for combating wheat rust fungi and mentored Norman Borlaug.
Elwood Linney
Elwood Linney is a molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at the Duke University School of Medicine, known for retinoid signaling research.
Elwood V. Jensen
Elwood V. Jensen (1920–2012) was an American biochemist who discovered the estrogen receptor, the first hormone receptor found, turning it into the basis of modern breast cancer diagnosis and therapy.
Emad S. Alnemri
Emad S. Alnemri is a molecular biologist at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia who studies apoptosis and inflammatory cell death, known for discovering the AIM2 inflammasome and named a National Academy of Inventors fellow in 2018.
Emad Tajkhorshid
Emad Tajkhorshid is an Iranian-born professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, best known for molecular dynamics simulations of membrane transport proteins like aquaporins.
Emanuel Donchin
Emanuel Donchin (1935–2018) was an Israeli-born psychophysiologist who helped establish event-related brain potentials as a measure of cognition; his Illinois laboratory characterized the P300 and built a P300-based brain-computer interface.
Emanuel Epstein
Emanuel Epstein (1916–2022) was an American plant physiologist at UC Davis, called the father of modern root physiology, who first applied enzyme kinetics to ion uptake in roots.
Emery Brown
Emery Brown is an American anesthesiologist, statistician, and computational neuroscientist, an Institute Professor at MIT and Harvard professor whose research defines how anesthetic drugs produce general anesthesia.
Emery H. Bresnick
Emery H. Bresnick is a molecular biologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who studies transcriptional regulation of blood cell formation, focusing on GATA transcription factors and leukemia predisposition.
Emi Nishimura
Emi Nishimura (西村 栄美) is a Japanese stem cell biologist at the University of Tokyo known for identifying melanocyte stem cells and linking their loss to hair graying.
Emil Abderhalden
Emil Abderhalden (1877–1950) was a Swiss-German physiologist and biochemist, co-founder of protein biochemistry, discoverer of the essential amino acid distinction, and 20th president of the German Academy Leopoldina from 1932 to 1950.
Emil C. Gotschlich
Emil C. Gotschlich (1935–2023) was an American physician and molecular chemist at Rockefeller University who developed the first effective vaccine against meningococcal meningitis and did foundational research on the gonococcus.
Emil du Bois-Reymond
Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818–1896) was a German physiologist born and died in Berlin, remembered as the founder of electrophysiology, demonstrating the electrical nature of the nerve signal.
Emil L. Smith
Emil L. Smith (1911–2009) was an American biochemist who pioneered determining amino acid sequences of proteins and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1962.