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Frank E. Young
Frank E. Young (1931–2019) was an American physician-scientist and bacteriologist who served as FDA Commissioner from 1984 to 1989 and later worked in healthcare venture capital.
Frank Fenner
Frank Fenner (1914–2010) was an Australian virologist whose myxomatosis research showed viruses and hosts evolving together, and who chaired the WHO commission certifying smallpox eradicated in 1980.
Frank Grosveld
Frank Grosveld (1948–2026) was a Dutch molecular biologist who discovered the β-globin locus control region, taught at Erasmus MC Rotterdam, and won the 1995 Spinoza Prize.
Frank H. Ruddle
Frank H. Ruddle, known as Frank Ruddle, was an American molecular biologist and Sterling Professor at Yale who pioneered human gene mapping and created the first transgenic mice.
Frank Horsfall
Frank Lappin Horsfall, Jr. (1906–1971) was an American virologist who achieved the first successful antiviral therapy in animals, an influenza vaccine halving incidence, and the Tamm–Horsfall protein.
Frank J. Rauscher
Frank J. Rauscher is an American molecular biologist at The Wistar Institute known for defining the Fos–AP-1 DNA binding site and showing WT1 is a transcriptional repressor.
Frank J. Stevenson
Frank J. Stevenson (1922–2015) was an American soil chemist at the University of Illinois, a pioneer of soil organic matter research and a Wolf Prize in Agriculture laureate.
Frank Kirchhoff
Frank Kirchhoff is a German virologist who has directed the Institute of Molecular Virology at the University Clinic Ulm since 2009, known for work on HIV, Nef, and semen factors that enhance infection.
Frank M. Chapman
Frank M. Chapman was an American ornithologist who spent 54 years at the American Museum of Natural History and studied the distribution of North and South American birds.
Frank M. Raushel
Frank M. Raushel (born 1949) is an American biochemist and Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University since 1980, known for enzyme catalysis, orphan enzyme discovery, and detoxifying nerve agents.
Frank Madeo
Frank Madeo, born 1967 in Schwerte, Germany, is a molecular biologist and professor at the University of Graz known for discovering yeast cell death and spermidine's lifespan-extending effects.
Frank Maley
Frank Maley is an American biochemist at the New York State Department of Health in Albany, known for discovering the first intron in a bacteriophage gene.
Frank McCormick
Frank McCormick, also known as Francis Patrick McCormick, is an American cancer biologist at UCSF who studies RAS proteins and founded Onyx Pharmaceuticals, which developed sorafenib.
Frank McKeon
Frank McKeon is an American stem cell biologist known for cloning the p63 gene and tracing Barrett's esophagus to residual embryonic cells at the gastroesophageal junction.
Frank Morgan Strong
Frank Morgan Strong (1908–1993) was an American biochemist and University of Wisconsin professor who, with Conrad Elvehjem, identified niacin as the food component curing pellagra.
Frank Noé
Frank Noé, born 1975 in Germany, is a computational scientist at Microsoft Research AI4Science in Berlin who co-pioneered Markov state models and developed deep learning systems for molecular simulation.
Frank O. Nestlé
Frank O. Nestlé, born 1964, is a dermatologist and immunologist known for his work on psoriasis and melanoma, formerly Mary Dunhill Professor at King's College London.
Frank Oliver Glöckner
Frank Oliver Glöckner, born 1969, is a German bioinformatician known for building the SILVA ribosomal RNA database and leading PANGAEA data services at the Alfred Wegener Institute.
Frank Olson
Frank Olson, Army biochemist and Fort Detrick biological warfare researcher (Special Operations Division), covertly dosed with LSD by the CIA in November 1953; died falling from a Statler Hotel window nine days later, a death disputed after the 1994 exhumation.
Frank R. DeLeo
Frank R. DeLeo is an American microbiologist who serves as Chief of the Laboratory of Bacteriology at NIAID's Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, studying how Staphylococcus aureus evades neutrophils.
Frank Rattray Lillie
Frank Rattray Lillie (1870–1947) was an American zoologist and embryologist whose 1917 freemartin studies explained sex differentiation in cattle twins, and who directed the Marine Biological Laboratory.
Frank S. Walsh
Frank S. Walsh is a molecular biologist known for his work on the neural cell adhesion molecule N-CAM and for leading neuroscience drug discovery at Wyeth.
Frank Sauer
Frank Sauer is an American-based German biochemist known for research on epigenetics and transcriptional regulation in the fruit fly Drosophila.
Frank Schluenzen
Frank Schluenzen is a structural biologist who co-determined high-resolution structures of bacterial ribosomal subunits, showing antibiotics bind only RNA, and later worked in scientific computing at DESY.
Frank Slack
Frank J. Slack is a molecular biologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School who co-discovered let-7, the second microRNA identified and the first in humans.
Frank Soldner
Frank Soldner is a German-trained physician-scientist and Associate Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine known for modeling Parkinson's disease with patient-derived stem cells and genome editing.
Frank Solomon
Frank Solomon is a cell biologist and professor emeritus of biology at MIT, known for work on microtubule-associated proteins, the mitotic spindle, and differentiating neurons, winning a 2011 teaching prize.
Frank Stegmeier
Frank Stegmeier is an American cancer biologist and functional genomics expert known for the ClonTracer cellular barcoding method and oncology drug target discovery at Novartis and KSQ Therapeutics.
Frank Uhlmann
Frank Uhlmann is a cell biologist who studies how sister chromatids are held together and separated during cell division, leading a laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in London since 2000.
Frank W. Putnam
Frank W. Putnam (1917–2006) was an American biochemist who sequenced antibodies and Bence Jones proteins, and was a professor at Indiana University Bloomington from 1965 to 1988.