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Evelyn M. Witkin

Evelyn M. Witkin was an American bacterial geneticist who discovered the SOS response, the set of genes E. coli switches on when its DNA is damaged, and won the 2015 Lasker Award.

Everett Peter Greenberg

Everett Peter Greenberg (born 1948) is an American microbiologist at the University of Washington who founded quorum sensing and shared the 2015 Shaw Prize for elucidating its molecular mechanism.

Evgeny M. Zdobnov

Evgeny M. Zdobnov is a Swiss-based computational biologist and full professor at the University of Geneva, known for BUSCO, the widely used genome completeness tool, and OrthoDB.

Evgeny Nudler

Evgeny Nudler is a molecular biologist who studies transcription, DNA repair, and bacterial stress signaling, holding a professorship at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and an HHMI appointment since 2013.

Eviatar Nevo

Eviatar Nevo (אביתר נבו; born 1929) is an Israeli evolutionary biologist and professor emeritus at the University of Haifa, known for research on blind mole rat speciation.

Ewald Hering

Ewald Hering, born Karl Ewald Konstantin Hering (1834–1918), was a German physiologist who discovered the Hering–Breuer reflex and proposed the opponent-process theory of color vision.

Eyal Raz

Eyal Raz is a professor emeritus of medicine at the University of California, San Diego, whose immunostimulatory DNA adjuvant work led to the approved hepatitis B vaccine HEPLISAV-B.

Eytan Ruppin

Eytan Ruppin is a computational biologist and cancer data scientist known for AI methods predicting individual cancer patients' therapy responses, founding the NCI's Cancer Data Science Laboratory in 2018.

F. Nina Papavasiliou

F. Nina Papavasiliou is a Greek-born immunologist known for work on somatic hypermutation and trypanosome antigenic variation, and head of the Immune Diversity division at DKFZ Heidelberg since 2016.

F. Ulrich Hartl

F. Ulrich Hartl, also Franz-Ulrich Hartl, is a German biochemist at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry who established that protein folding inside cells requires molecular chaperones.

F. William Studier

F. William Studier (Frederick William Studier), born 1936, is an American molecular biologist at Brookhaven National Laboratory who developed the widely used T7 protein expression system.

F.H. Ruddle

F.H. Ruddle, known as Frank Ruddle, was a Yale molecular geneticist who pioneered human gene mapping and created the first transgenic mammal, a mouse carrying foreign DNA.

F.R. Salemme

F.R. Salemme (Francis R. Salemme) is a protein crystallographer known for work on cytochromes, β-sheets, and four-α-helical bundles, with affiliations at the University of Arizona and DuPont.

Fabian Theis

Fabian J. Theis, born 1976, is a German computational biologist who directs the Institute of Computational Biology at Helmholtz Munich and is known for the single-cell software Scanpy.

Fabio Benfenati

Fabio Benfenati, born in Bologna in 1954, is an Italian neurophysiologist at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genova known for work on synaptic transmission and light-sensitive neural interfaces.

Fábio Rossi

Fábio Rossi, also known as Fabio M.V. Rossi, is an Italian-trained physician-scientist and professor at the University of British Columbia known for stem cell research.

Fabrizio d’Adda di Fagagna

Fabrizio d’Adda di Fagagna is an Italian cell and molecular biologist who leads a laboratory at IFOM in Milan, studying DNA damage, cellular senescence, aging, and cancer.

Facundo Batista

Facundo D. Batista is an Argentinian immunologist who studies B cells, leads research at the Ragon Institute and MIT, and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2025.

Fadi G. Lakkis

Fadi G. Lakkis is a transplantation immunologist and physician-scientist known for work on innate allorecognition and memory T cells in transplant rejection, long at the Starzl Transplantation Institute in Pittsburgh and now at Stanford.

Fan Wang (neuroscientist)

Fan Wang is a neuroscientist, MIT professor, and McGovern Institute investigator who studies brain circuits of touch, pain, and anesthesia, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2026.

Fang Huang (molecular biologist)

Fang Huang is a Chinese-American biophysicist and Reilly Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University, known for whole-cell 4Pi nanoscopy and imaging methods reaching nanoscale resolution deep inside tissues.

Fang‐Jie Zhao

Fang-Jie Zhao (赵方杰) is a Chinese plant nutrition researcher, a professor at Nanjing Agricultural University since 2012 after twenty years at Rothamsted Research, known for discovering how arsenic enters rice.

Fanxin Long

Fanxin Long is an American bone and developmental biologist who studies how signaling pathways control osteoblast differentiation, holding an endowed chair at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia since 2018.

Farren J. Isaacs

Farren J. Isaacs is a synthetic biologist and genome engineer, professor at Yale, known for building genomically recoded bacteria and the MAGE and CAGE engineering tools.

Federica Sallusto

Federica Sallusto is an immunologist known for defining the two main subsets of human memory T cells and for evidence that narcolepsy is autoimmune, leading a lab in Bellinzona, Switzerland.

Fei Chen

Fei Chen is an associate professor at Harvard and Broad Institute core member working in single-cell and spatial genomics. He is best known for co-inventing Expansion microscopy and developing Slide-seq.

Felicia D. Goodrum

Felicia D. Goodrum is an American virologist known for defining the viral genes controlling human cytomegalovirus latency, including UL138, and received the 2008 Presidential Early Career Award.

Felix Ehrlich

Felix Ehrlich (1877–1942) was a German biochemist at the Institut für Zuckerindustrie in Berlin who identified the Ehrlich pathway of fusel alcohol formation in yeast.

Felix Eugen Fritsch

Felix Eugen Fritsch (1879–1954) was a British botanist, the leading British authority on freshwater algae and author of The Structure and Reproduction of the Algae.

Felix Haurowitz

Felix Haurowitz was a Czech-born biochemist and immunochemist, born in Prague in 1896, known for the template theory of antibody formation and pioneering work on hemoglobin.