Life scientists

Folke K. Skoog

Folke K. Skoog was a Swedish-born American plant physiologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for discovering kinetin and creating the Murashige and Skoog tissue culture medium.

Foo Y. Liew

Foo Y. Liew, known as Eddy Liew, is an immunologist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Glasgow who showed that nitric oxide kills engulfed pathogens.

Forest Rohwer

Forest Rohwer is a viral ecologist and professor at San Diego State University who pioneered viromics, sequencing all viruses in a sample, and studies viruses on coral reefs.

Forrest F. Weight

Forrest F. Weight is a neuroscientist in synaptic electrophysiology who worked at St. Elizabeths Hospital and NIAAA, showing ethanol inhibits NMDA receptors at intoxicating concentrations.

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Fotis C. Kafatos

Fotis C. Kafatos (1940–2017) was a Greek developmental and molecular biologist who sequenced the malaria mosquito genome, directed EMBL, and chaired the European Research Council.

Fran Supek

Fran Supek, born 1981, is a Croatian computational biologist leading the Genome Data Science lab at IRB Barcelona and, since 2024, a group at the University of Copenhagen.

Frances H. Arnold, Caltech chemical engineer, pioneered directed evolution of enzymes (iterative mutation and screening), winning the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; first American woman chemistry laureate and first woman Draper Prize winner.

Frances E. Lund

Frances E. Lund is an American immunologist who directs the Immunology Institute of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she studies B cell differentiation, memory, and cytokine production.

Frances M. Brodsky

Frances M. Brodsky is an American cell biologist and immunologist known for defining how clathrin assembles and for discovering the CHC22 isoform's role in glucose metabolism.

Frances S. Chance

Frances S. Chance is an American computational neuroscientist at Sandia National Laboratories who studies how biological neural networks process information and applies it to brain-inspired computing.

Francesc Posas

Francesc Posas is a Spanish molecular biologist studying stress-activated MAP kinase signaling, Full Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Director of IRB Barcelona since 2018.

Francesca Cacucci

Francesca Cacucci is a neuroscientist and Professor of Neuroscience at University College London who leads the Spatial Cognition in Development lab, studying how hippocampal circuits represent space and develop after birth.

Francesca D. Ciccarelli

Francesca D. Ciccarelli is an Italian cancer genomics researcher known for the Network of Cancer Genes and head of the Centre for Cancer Evolution in London since 2023.

Francesco Blasi

Francesco Blasi, born 1937 in Naples, is an Italian molecular biologist who cloned the urokinase receptor uPAR, central to cell migration and cancer invasion, and later studied the Prep1 transcription factor.

Francesco Cecconi

Francesco Cecconi, born in Rome in 1964, is an Italian biochemist and cell biologist known for identifying Apaf1's developmental role in apoptosis and discovering Ambra1, a vertebrate autophagy protein.

Francesco Cucca

Francesco Cucca is an Italian physician and geneticist, professor of medical genetics at the University of Sassari, who studies genes shaping immunity and disease in Sardinia.

Francesco Dieli

Francesco Dieli, born in Prizzi, Sicily, in 1958, is an Italian immunologist and full professor at the University of Palermo known for γδ T-cell research.

Francesco Muntoni

Francesco Muntoni is a pediatric neurologist trained in Italy who has worked in the UK since 1993, known for identifying neuromuscular disease genes and developing Duchenne muscular dystrophy therapies.

Francesco Ramirez

Francesco Ramirez is a molecular geneticist and professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, known for cloning human collagen genes and studying Marfan syndrome.

Francesco Savelli

Francesco Savelli is an Italian computational neuroscientist, an assistant professor at UT San Antonio since 2020, who studies how the hippocampal formation builds spatial maps for navigation.

Francis A. Barr

Francis A. Barr, also known as Francis Barr, is a cell biologist who holds the EP Abraham Professorship of Mechanistic Cell Biology at the University of Oxford.

Francis Balfour-Browne

Francis Balfour-Browne (1874–1967) was an English entomologist and professor of entomology at Imperial College who ran the British and Irish water beetle recording scheme; the Balfour-Browne Club is named for him.

Francis Bertody Sumner

Francis Bertody Sumner (1874–1945) was an American zoologist and ichthyologist, professor of biology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1913 until his death, known for experimental studies of animal coloration.

Francis Carbone

Francis Carbone is an Australian immunologist, a professor at the University of Melbourne and the Peter Doherty Institute known for research on T cell selection and cross-presentation.

Francis Collins

Francis Sellers Collins (born 1950) is an American physician-geneticist, cystic fibrosis gene discoverer via positional cloning, leader of the Human Genome Project, NHGRI director 1993-2008, and NIH director 2009-2021; retired from NIH in March 2025.

Francis Crick

Francis Harry Compton Crick (1916–2004) was a British molecular biologist who co-proposed DNA's double-helix structure in 1953, winning the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Francis Darwin

Sir Francis Darwin (1848–1925), third son of Charles Darwin, English botanist; collaborated on The Power of Movement in Plants (1880), Cambridge botany lecturer and reader, Royal Society foreign secretary, knighted 1913, editor of Life and Letters of Charles Darwin.

Francis Gano Benedict

Francis Gano Benedict (1870–1957) was an American chemist and physiologist who directed the Carnegie Nutrition Laboratory in Boston from 1907 to 1937 and developed the Harris–Benedict equations for basal metabolism.

Francis H. Glorieux

Francis H. Glorieux, also known as F.H. Glorieux (1939–2025), was a Belgian-born Canadian pediatrician and geneticist at McGill and the Montreal Shriners Hospital whose rickets and osteogenesis imperfecta treatments became worldwide standards of care.