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Felix Wieland

Felix T. Wieland, born 1948, is a German biochemist and founding director of Heidelberg University's Biochemistry Center, known for work on COPI-coated vesicles and bulk-flow transport.

Feng Depei

Feng Depei (Te-Pei Feng) was a Chinese neurophysiologist, 1907 to 1995, known for the Feng effect and for first describing post-tetanic potentiation at the neuromuscular junction in 1941.

Feng Zhang

Feng Zhang (张锋, born 1981) is a Chinese-born American scientist at the Broad Institute and MIT who first adapted CRISPR-Cas9 to edit mammalian, including human, cells.

Fengbin Wang

Fengbin Wang is a Chinese-born structural biologist who uses cryo-electron microscopy to study protein filaments and is an assistant professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham since 2022.

Feodor Lynen

Feodor Lynen (1911–1979) was a German biochemist who shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research on cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism.

Fergus J. Couch

Fergus J. Couch is an American cancer geneticist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for the CARRIERS breast cancer study and classifying BRCA2 gene variants.

Fernando Azorín

Fernando Azorín, also published as Ferran Azorín, is a Spanish molecular biologist and Research Professor at CSIC in Barcelona, known for work on chromatin structure and genome stability.

Fernando Nottebohm

Fernando Nottebohm, born in Buenos Aires in 1940, is a Rockefeller University neuroscientist who mapped the songbird song system and gave the first solid evidence that adult warm-blooded brains add new neurons.

Feroz R. Papa

Feroz R. Papa is an American physician-scientist and Professor of Medicine at UCSF who studies how protein unfolding in the endoplasmic reticulum causes disease, developing IRE1α-targeting drugs for diabetes and fibrosis.

Ferric C. Fang

Ferric C. Fang is an American physician and microbiologist, professor at the University of Washington since 2001 and director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

Filipe Borges

Filipe Borges is a plant molecular biologist who leads an epigenetics team at INRAE's Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin near Paris, studying small RNAs and transposon silencing in plant reproduction.

Filippo Bottazzi

Filippo Bottazzi (1867–1941) was an Italian comparative physiologist and professor at the University of Naples, commonly credited as the father of Italian biochemistry; he discovered the hemocatatonetic function of the spleen.

Filippo M. Rijli

Filippo M. Rijli is an Italian developmental biologist who leads the Laboratory of Developmental Neuroepigenetics at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel, studying Hox genes and Polycomb regulation in cranial neural crest.

Filippo Mancia

Filippo Mancia is an Italian structural biologist and professor at Columbia University who determines atomic structures of membrane proteins, including the Wnt carrier WLS and the choline transporter FLVCR2.

Fiona Doetsch

Fiona Doetsch is a Canadian-born developmental neuroscientist and professor at the University of Basel, known for identifying astrocytes in the adult brain as neural stem cells.

Fiona H. Marshall

Fiona H. Marshall is a molecular pharmacologist known for her work on G protein-coupled receptors, who co-founded Heptares Therapeutics and has led biomedical research at Novartis since 2022.

Fiona Powrie

Dame Fiona Powrie, born 1963, is a British immunologist who directs the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology at Oxford and studies regulatory T cells and IL-23 in inflammatory bowel disease.

Fiona Watt

Fiona Watt, also known as Fiona M. Watt, is a British stem cell biologist known for isolating human epidermal stem cells and director of EMBO since 2022.

Firdausi Qadri

Firdausi Qadri, born 1951, is a Bangladeshi immunologist at icddr,b in Dhaka whose trials showed a single oral dose of cholera vaccine protects older children and adults.

Flaminia Catteruccia

Flaminia Catteruccia is a malaria researcher and Irene Heinz Given Professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health who studies how Plasmodium parasites develop inside Anopheles mosquitoes.

Flora M. Vaccarino

Flora M. Vaccarino is a physician-scientist and stem-cell biologist at Yale University who pioneered three-dimensional brain organoids from induced pluripotent stem cells in 2012, modeling autism and Tourette syndrome.

Florante A. Quiocho

Florante A. Quiocho, also cited as F.A. Quiocho, is a structural biologist and Distinguished Emeritus Professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, known for crystal structures of bacterial transport receptors.

Florent Ginhoux

Florent Ginhoux is a French immunologist known for showing that many tissue macrophages arise from embryonic precursors, and now leads a laboratory at Gustave Roussy Hospital in Villejuif.

Florian Eichler

Florian S. Eichler is an Austrian-trained pediatric neurologist and Harvard professor at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, known for leading lentiviral gene-therapy trials in cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy published in 2017 and 2024.

Florian Engert

Florian Engert is a systems neuroscientist and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University who studies neural circuits controlling behavior in larval zebrafish.

Florian Klein

Florian Klein is a German physician-scientist, virologist, and immunologist, professor and director of the Institute of Virology at the University of Cologne since 2017, known for broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2.

Florian Läng

Florian Läng, also known as Florian Lang, is an Austrian-born German physiologist at the University of Tübingen known for research on ion channels, cell volume regulation, and SGK1.

Flossie Wong‐Staal

Flossie Wong-Staal, born Yee Ching Wong (1946–2020), was a Chinese-born American molecular virologist who first cloned HIV, proved it causes AIDS, and later led AIDS research at UCSD.

Floyd E. Bloom

Floyd E. Bloom (1936–2025) was an American neuroscientist and physician who established norepinephrine as a brain neurotransmitter, chaired the neuropharmacology department at the Scripps Research Institute, and edited Science from 1995 to 2000.

Floyd E. Romesberg

Floyd E. Romesberg is an American biochemist and geneticist who spent most of his career at The Scripps Research Institute and created the first semi-synthetic organism, a bacterium with an added human-made DNA base pair.