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Eric Meffre

Eric Meffre is a French-trained immunologist and Professor of Medicine at Stanford University since 2022, known for defining the B cell tolerance checkpoints that remove autoreactive cells in humans.

Eric Miska

Eric Miska is a British-based RNA biologist at the University of Cambridge known for showing that small RNAs carry heritable information across generations in C. elegans.

Eric Morrow

Eric Morrow is an American physician-scientist and psychiatrist at Brown University whose research identifies genes disrupted in autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders, directing Bradley Hospital's genetics research program.

Eric N. Olson

Eric N. Olson, born in 1955, is an American molecular biologist who founded the molecular biology department at UT Southwestern and studies the genetic control of muscle and heart development and disease.

Eric O. Long

Eric O. Long is an American immunologist who heads the Molecular and Cellular Immunology Section at NIAID, NIH, and is known for identifying NK cell inhibitory receptors.

Eric Oldfield (chemist)

Eric Oldfield is a British-born chemist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for developing deuterium NMR methods for membranes and for discovering new antibiotics and anti-cancer drugs.

Eric P. Hoffman

Eric P. Hoffman is an American human geneticist known for identifying dystrophin, the protein missing in Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and for developing vamorolone, approved by the FDA in 2023.

Eric P. Skaar

Eric P. Skaar is an American microbiologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center who studies nutritional immunity, how hosts starve bacteria of metals like zinc and manganese.

Eric R Schreiter

Eric R Schreiter is a protein engineer and neuroscientist who has led a laboratory at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus since 2015, best known for developing the GCaMP calcium indicators.

Eric R. Fearon

Eric R. Fearon, also published as Eric Fearon, is an American physician-scientist at the University of Michigan who studies the genetics of colorectal and other cancers.

Eric R. Kandel

Eric R. Kandel, also known as Eric Kandel, is an American neuroscientist at Columbia University who studies the molecular mechanisms of learning and memory and shared the 2000 Nobel Prize.

Eric S. Weinberg

Eric S. Weinberg, also Eric Weinberg (1942/43–2026), was an American molecular developmental biologist and professor emeritus at Penn, known for sea urchin histone gene regulation and zebrafish developmental genetics.

Eric Schadt

Eric Schadt is an American computational biologist known for network genomics, a professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and founder of the genetic testing company Sema4.

Eric Selker

Eric Selker is an American molecular biologist at the University of Oregon who discovered repeat-induced point mutation (RIP), a genome defense system in the fungus Neurospora crassa.

Eric T. Kool

Eric T. Kool, also known as Eric Kool, is an American chemical biologist and the Daubert Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1999.

Éric Vivier

Éric Vivier is a French immunologist specializing in natural killer cells and innate lymphoid cells, professor in Marseille and co-founder of the biotech company Innate Pharma.

Éric Westhof

Éric Westhof, born in 1948, is a French molecular biologist who spent his career at CNRS and the IBMC in Strasbourg, known for the geometric classification of RNA base pairs and the concept of isostericity.

Eric Wieschaus

Eric F. Wieschaus, born 1947 in South Bend, Indiana, is an American developmental biologist who shared the 1995 Nobel Prize for discoveries on the genetic control of embryonic development.

Erica N. Larschan

Erica Nicole Larschan is an American chromatin and gene-regulation biologist at Brown University, known for discovering the CLAMP protein, developing the MACC accessibility metric, and receiving a 2012 PECASE award.

Erica O. Saphire

Erica Ollmann Saphire is an American structural biologist who determines structures of Ebola and Lassa virus proteins and antibodies, and is President and CEO of the La Jolla Institute for Immunology.

Erica Spackman

Erica Spackman is a veterinary virologist at the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Athens, Georgia, who developed real-time PCR assays for detecting avian influenza and Newcastle disease.

Erich A. Nigg

Erich A. Nigg (born 1952) is a Swiss cell biologist known for research on centrosomes and chromosome segregation, and director of the Biozentrum in Basel.

Erich D. Jarvis

Erich D. Jarvis is an American neuroscientist at Rockefeller University who studies vocal learning in songbirds, parrots, and hummingbirds and chairs the Vertebrate Genomes Project.

Erich E. Wanker

Erich E. Wanker, also known as Erich Wanker, is a professor of molecular medicine at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin who studies protein misfolding in neurodegenerative disease.

Erich Grotewold

Erich Grotewold is an Argentine-trained plant molecular biologist at Michigan State University known for his work on how transcription factors control the flavonoid pigmentation pathways of maize.

Erich Gulbins

Erich Gulbins is a molecular biologist and professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen whose laboratory studies ceramide signaling in bacterial defense, cystic fibrosis, and cancer.

Erik B. Bloss

Erik B. Bloss is an American neuroscientist studying how synaptic wiring among cortical and hippocampal cell types supports neural computation and behavior; he joined The Jackson Laboratory in Maine in 2019.

Erik C. Böttger

Erik Christian Böttger, born 1956, is a German physician-scientist in medical microbiology, professor emeritus at the University of Zurich, known for describing Mycobacterium genavense in AIDS patients in 1992.

Erik De Clercq

Erik De Clercq is a Belgian physician-scientist, born in 1941, who spent his career at KU Leuven's Rega Institute developing antiviral drugs including tenofovir and brivudine.

Erik J. Sontheimer

Erik J. Sontheimer is an American molecular biologist studying RNA interference and CRISPR immunity; his 2008 work showed CRISPR targets DNA, and he co-founded Intellia Therapeutics in 2014.