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Emil R. Unanue

Emil R. Unanue (Emil Raphael Unanue, 1934–2022) was a Cuban-born American immunologist who defined antigen presentation, led Washington University's pathology department, and won the 1995 Lasker Award.

Emil von Behring

Emil Adolf von Behring (1854–1917) was a German bacteriologist who won the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1901 for diphtheria serum therapy.

Émile Duclaux

Émile Duclaux (1840–1904) was a French chemist and microbiologist, Louis Pasteur's first and closest collaborator, who directed the Institut Pasteur from 1895 to 1904 and defended Alfred Dreyfus.

Emiliana Borrelli

Emiliana Borrelli is an Italian-born neuroscientist, trained in Naples, Strasbourg, and at the Salk Institute, known for cloning the dopamine D2 receptor and generating the first mice lacking it.

Emilio Bizzi

Emilio Bizzi is an Italian-born neuroscientist, born in Rome, who joined MIT in 1969 and is known for the equilibrium-point hypothesis and spinal muscle synergies.

Emilio Hirsch

Emilio Hirsch is a molecular biologist and professor of experimental biology at the University of Turin, known for showing that PI3K signaling enzymes are distinct drug targets.

Emily Bernstein

Emily Bernstein is an American epigenetics researcher, Professor and Vice Chair of Oncological Sciences at Mount Sinai, known for identifying Dicer and studying ATRX mutations in neuroblastoma.

Emily H. Cheng

Emily H. Cheng is a cancer biologist and physician-scientist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center whose work on apoptosis and the BCL-2 family informs cancer drugs like venetoclax.

Emma C. Teeling

Emma C. Teeling is an Irish zoologist and geneticist, Full Professor of Zoology at University College Dublin, who studies bat genomes to understand bats' exceptional longevity.

Emma Lundberg (cell biologist)

Emma Lundberg is a Swedish cell biologist and spatial proteomics researcher who directs the Cell Atlas of the Human Protein Atlas and is an associate professor at Stanford University.

Emma Whitelaw

Emma Whitelaw is an Australian molecular geneticist known for pioneering transgenerational epigenetic inheritance in mammals; her 1999 agouti mouse paper was the first demonstration in mammals.

Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis

Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis, known as Manolis Dermitzakis, is a Greek geneticist who studies population genomics and regulatory variation, and is president of the Qatar Precision Health Institute.

Emmanuel D. Levy

Emmanuel D. Levy is a structural and computational biologist at the University of Geneva, known for showing that single point mutations can push folded proteins into self-assembled structures.

Emmanuel Farber

Emmanuel Farber (1918–2014) was a Canadian pathologist and biochemist who established the biochemical analysis of chemical carcinogenesis and led pathology at the University of Toronto from 1975 to 1985.

Emmanuel Fauré-Frémiet

Emmanuel Fauré-Frémiet (1883–1971) was a French biologist who held the chair of comparative embryology at the Collège de France from 1928 to 1954 and became a central figure in ciliate protozoology.

Emmanuelle Charpentier

Emmanuelle Charpentier, born 1968 in France, is a French microbiologist who co-developed CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing and shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jennifer Doudna.

Emmanuelle Passegué

Emmanuelle Passegué is a stem cell biologist known for showing that loss of JunB in blood stem cells causes a leukemia-like disease, and for linking inflammation to stem cell aging.

Endel Tulving

Endel Tulving (1927–2023) was an Estonian–Canadian cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Toronto who distinguished episodic from semantic memory and proposed the encoding specificity principle.

Enid MacRobbie

Enid MacRobbie (1931–2024) was a British plant biophysicist, Professor of Plant Biophysics at Cambridge and Fellow of Girton College, known for measuring ion fluxes in plant cells with radioactive tracers.

Enrico Coen

Enrico S. Coen, born in Liverpool in 1957, is a British plant molecular geneticist at the John Innes Centre whose snapdragon mutant screens helped establish the ABC model of flower development.

Enrico Di Cera

Enrico Di Cera is an American biochemist and physician, chairman of biochemistry at Saint Louis University, known for over three decades of work on the blood-clotting enzyme thrombin.

Enrico Schwabe

Enrico Schwabe is a malacologist at the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology in Munich whose research centers on chiton systematics and deep-sea molluscs; the sensory Schwabe organ is named after him.

Enrique Rodríguez-Boulan

Enrique Rodríguez-Boulan is an Argentine-American cell biologist known for his 1978 discovery that enveloped viruses bud in a polarized manner from epithelial cells, a model for studying epithelial polarity.

Enrique Rozengurt

Enrique Rozengurt is a molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor of Medicine at UCLA who studies growth factor signaling and discovered the protein kinase D family of enzymes.

Ephraim Katzir

Ephraim Katzir, also known as Ephraim Katchalski-Katzir, was an Israeli biophysicist at the Weizmann Institute who served as the fourth President of Israel from 1973 to 1978.

Eran Elinav

Eran Elinav is an Israeli physician-scientist who studies how the gut microbiome interacts with the human body, heading the Department of Systems Immunology at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel.

Eran Halperin

Eran Halperin is a computational biologist and statistical geneticist who develops machine learning methods for genomic data, and since 2026 has been a professor at New York University's Courant Institute.

Eran Pichersky

Eran Pichersky is a plant biochemist and emeritus professor at the University of Michigan known for research on how plants make volatile scent and flavor compounds.

Eran Segal

Eran Segal is an Israeli computational biologist, born in Tel Aviv in 1973, who is a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science known for personalized nutrition research.

Erez Raz

Erez Raz is an Israeli-born developmental and cell biologist, professor and institute director at the University of Münster, known for showing that chemokine SDF-1 guides zebrafish germ cell migration.