Life scientists

Erik L. L. Sonnhammer

Erik L. L. Sonnhammer is a Swedish bioinformatician, Professor of Bioinformatics at Stockholm University and Science for Life Laboratory, and creator of the Pfam database.

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Erik Lee Snapp

Erik Lee Snapp is an American cell biologist and biophysicist known for quantitative imaging of protein folding in the endoplasmic reticulum and for naming the ER reflux pathway.

Erik Lindahl is a Swedish computational biophysicist and Professor of Biophysics at Stockholm University, known for developing the molecular dynamics software GROMACS and contributing to cryo-EM software RELION.

Erik M. Jorgensen

Erik M. Jorgensen (Erik M. Jørgensen) is an American neuroscientist and Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of Utah, an HHMI Investigator known for showing that protons act as a transmitter.

Erik Sahai

Erik Sahai is a cancer biologist who leads the Tumour Cell Biology Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in London, studying how cancer spreads and resists treatment.

Erik Selsing

Erik Selsing is an immunologist at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston whose 1981 Cell paper showed that expressed antibody genes carry somatic mutations absent from germline DNA.

Erik Trinkaus

Erik Trinkaus is an American paleoanthropologist, Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor Emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis, known for his work on Neandertal biology and the Lagar Velho child.

Erika L. Pearce

Erika L. Pearce (born 1972) is an American immunologist who studies immunometabolism, how metabolism controls T cells, and directs cancer immunology research at Johns Hopkins University.

Erika L.F. Holzbaur

Erika L.F. Holzbaur, also known as Erika Holzbaur, is an American cell biologist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies molecular motors, axonal transport, and neurodegeneration.

Erika von Mutius

Erika von Mutius, born 1957, is a German pediatrician and epidemiologist whose research on farming environments reshaped the hygiene hypothesis, showing farm children have lower asthma rates.

Erin J. Adams

Erin J. Adams is an American immunologist and structural biologist at the University of Chicago, known for structural studies of unconventional T cells and nonclassical MHC-like proteins.

Erin K. O’Shea

Erin K. O'Shea is an American molecular and systems biologist who became the first woman president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) in 2016.

Erin Schuman

Erin M. Schuman is an American neurobiologist who showed that neurons make proteins locally in their dendrites, and directs the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt.

Erling Seeberg

Erling Christen Seeberg (1946–2004) was a biochemist whose 1970s work showed that three uvr gene products cut ultraviolet-damaged DNA in E. coli, cited in the 2015 Nobel Prize background.

Ermias Kebreab

Ermias Kebreab is an Eritrea-born animal scientist at the University of California, Davis, known for trials showing seaweed and 3-NOP feed additives cut cattle methane emissions.

Erminio Costa

Erminio Costa (1924–2009) was an Italian-born American neuropharmacologist who showed that benzodiazepines act on the GABAA receptor, identified neurosteroids, and reported reelin down-regulation in schizophrenia.

Ernest D. Laue

Ernest D. Laue, also known as Ernest Laue, is a structural biologist and Emeritus Professor at Cambridge, known for NuRD chromatin studies and 3D genome structures from single cells.

Ernest Fraenkel

Ernest Fraenkel is a computational systems biologist and Grover M. Hermann Professor at MIT who studies how molecular networks go wrong in diseases including ALS and cancer.

Ernest G. Peralta

Ernest G. Peralta (1959–1999) was an American molecular biologist and Harvard professor who cloned muscarinic receptors and showed how G proteins regulate potassium channels; he died of brain cancer at 40.

Ernest Gale

Ernest Frederick Gale (1914–2005) was a British microbiologist at Cambridge who recast bacteria as chemical machines, directing the MRC Unit for Chemical Microbiology and entering the Royal Society in 1953.

Ernest Hartmann

Ernest Hartmann, also known as Ernest L. Hartmann, was an Austrian-born American psychiatrist and sleep and dream researcher, professor of psychiatry at Tufts University and creator of the Boundary Questionnaire.

Ernest Hilgard

Ernest Hilgard (1904–2001) was an American experimental psychologist at Stanford University known for research on conditioning and learning and for making hypnosis a measurable laboratory science.

Ernest M. Wright

Ernest M. Wright (Ernest Marshall Wright, born 1940) is a Belfast-born physiologist at UCLA whose laboratory cloned the sodium-glucose cotransporters, foundation for SGLT2 diabetes drugs.

Ernest McCulloch

Ernest Armstrong McCulloch (1926–2011) was a Canadian cellular biologist who, with James Till, created the 1961 spleen colony assay, the first quantitative method for identifying stem cells.

Ernest R. Sears

Ernest R. Sears (1910–1991) was an American wheat cytogeneticist and USDA geneticist at the University of Missouri, known for wheat's complete aneuploid series and the first chromosome engineering experiment.

Ernest William Goodpasture

Ernest William Goodpasture was an American pathologist and virologist at Vanderbilt University whose 1931 technique for growing viruses in chicken eggs made mass vaccine production possible; Goodpasture syndrome bears his name.

Ernesto Carafoli

Ernesto Carafoli (born 1932) is an Italian biochemist known for his work on calcium signaling and calcium transport, at ETH Zurich and then the University of Padua.

Ernesto Guccione

Ernesto Guccione is a molecular biologist studying epigenetics and RNA splicing in cancer, a professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York since 2019.

Ernst Bamberg

Ernst Bamberg is a German biophysicist regarded as a founder of optogenetics, honored with the 2013 Brain Prize and the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.