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Francis Martin (fungal genomicist)

Francis Martin is a French fungal genomicist and Research Director Emeritus at INRAE in Nancy, known for sequencing the Laccaria bicolor and Périgord black truffle genomes.

Francis O. Schmitt

Francis O. Schmitt (1903–1995) was an American biologist and neuroscientist, Institute Professor at MIT, who launched neuroscience as a field with his Neurosciences Research Program in 1962.

Francis R. Willett

Francis R. Willett (Frank Willett) is a neuroscientist and Stanford assistant professor of neurosurgery known for brain-computer interfaces that decoded handwriting at 90 characters per minute.

Francisco Baralle

Francisco E. Baralle, born 1943 in Buenos Aires, is an Argentine molecular biologist in Trieste who sequenced the first complete eukaryotic mRNA in 1977 and pioneered alternative splicing research.

Francisco Bezanilla

Francisco Bezanilla is a Chilean-trained biophysicist, professor emeritus at the University of Chicago, known for codiscovering the gating current in sodium channels and for work on voltage sensors.

Francisco Gonzalez-Scarano M.D.

Francisco González-Scarano is an American physician-scientist in neurovirology who chaired neurology at Penn and was dean of the Long School of Medicine at UT Health San Antonio.

Francisco J Asturias

Francisco J. Asturias is a structural biologist and Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical School, known for cryo-EM structures of the Mediator transcription complex, the RSC chromatin remodeler, and the HIV-1 capsid.

Francisco J. Ayala

Francisco José Ayala (1934–2023) was a Spanish-born American evolutionary geneticist at UC Davis and Irvine known for work on the origin of species, genetic diversity, and the molecular clock of evolution.

Francisco J. Quintana

Francisco J. Quintana, also known as Francisco Quintana, is a neuroimmunologist and Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School who studies inflammation in multiple sclerosis and the AHR pathway.

Francisco Juan Martínez Mojica

Francisco Juan Martínez Mojica, known as Francis Mojica, is a Spanish microbiologist at the University of Alicante who recognized CRISPR as a bacterial immune system.

Francisco Mauro Salzano

Francisco Mauro Salzano (1928–2018) was a Brazilian human population geneticist at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul who pioneered genetic studies of Brazil's indigenous peoples.

Franck Polleux

Franck Polleux is a French-trained developmental neuroscientist, professor at Columbia University and its Zuckerman Institute, known for work on cortical development and human brain evolution.

François Cuzin

François Cuzin, born in 1938, is a French geneticist and professor emeritus at the Université Côte d'Azur in Nice, known for transgenesis in the mouse and RNA-mediated non-Mendelian inheritance.

François Fuks

François Fuks is a molecular biologist and full professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles who studies how epigenetic mechanisms fail in cancer, founding Belgium's first epigenetics laboratory in 2006.

François Gros

François Gros (1925–2022) was a French molecular biologist who co-discovered messenger RNA in 1961 and later directed the Institut Pasteur and held a chair at the Collège de France.

Francois Guillemot

François Guillemot is a developmental neurobiologist who leads the Neural Stem Cell Biology Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in London and was elected a Royal Society Fellow in 2020.

François Jacob

François Jacob (1920–2013) was a French biologist who devised the operon model of gene regulation at the Institut Pasteur, winning the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

François Leulier

François Leulier is a French CNRS researcher who leads the Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon in Lyon, best known for defining the mutualism between Lactobacillus plantarum and the fruit fly Drosophila.

François Morel (physiologist)

François Morel (1923–2007) was a Swiss-born, naturalised French physiologist who held the Chair of Cellular Physiology at the Collège de France from 1967 to 1993 and mapped hormone action along the kidney nephron.

François Rougeon

François Rougeon, born in 1942, is a French molecular biologist who spent his career at the Institut Pasteur and CNRS, known for work on antibody diversity and mRNA cloning.

François Schweisguth

François Schweisguth is a French developmental biologist who studies Notch signaling, asymmetric cell division, and pattern formation in the fruit fly Drosophila at the Institut Pasteur in Paris.

Francois Spitz

François Spitz is a French geneticist and professor of human genetics at the University of Chicago, known for defining large regulatory domains around the HoxD gene cluster.

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, born in 1947, is a French virologist at the Institut Pasteur in Paris who co-discovered HIV in 1983, winning the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Frank B. Gertler

Frank B. Gertler is a cell biologist and Professor of Biology Emeritus at MIT, known for defining the Ena/VASP proteins that regulate actin filament elongation and cell migration.

Frank Bradke

Frank Bradke, born 1969 in Berlin, is a German neuroscientist at the DZNE in Bonn who studies axon growth and won the 2016 Leibniz Prize.

Frank Brink Jr.

Frank Brink Jr., an American biophysicist, studied nerve fiber metabolism and worked at The Rockefeller University. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1959.

Frank C. P. Holstege

Frank C. P. Holstege (born 1966) is a Dutch molecular biologist, professor of Genomics at UMC Utrecht, known for genome-wide transcription studies and pediatric cancer genomics.

Frank Costantini

Frank Costantini is an American developmental biologist and geneticist, Professor Emeritus at Columbia, known for transgenic mouse technology and showing Ret is required for kidney development.

Frank DiMaio

Frank Paul DiMaio is a computational structural biologist and associate professor of biochemistry at the University of Washington's Institute for Protein Design, known for Rosetta cryo-EM refinement and RoseTTAFoldNA.

Frank E. Löffler

Frank E. Löffler is an environmental microbiologist holding the Goodrich Chair at the University of Tennessee, known for anaerobic bacteria that detoxify chlorinated solvents in contaminated groundwater.