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Franklin P. Mall
Franklin P. Mall (1862–1917) was an American anatomist and embryologist who founded human embryology in the United States and was Johns Hopkins' first professor of anatomy.
Franklin Stahl
Franklin Stahl (1929–2025) was an American molecular geneticist at the University of Oregon, known for the 1958 Meselson–Stahl experiment showing DNA replicates semiconservatively, and for decades of work on genetic recombination.
Frans Β. Μ. de Waal
Frans B. M. de Waal (1948–2024) was a Dutch-born primatologist at Emory University, known for Chimpanzee Politics and for showing that reconciliation, consolation, and fairness reach deep into primate evolution.
František Karel Studnička
František Karel Studnička (1870–1955) was a Czech physician, anatomist, and histologist who developed the exoplasm theory and became a founding professor of Masaryk University's medical faculty in Brno.
Franz Eilhard Schulze
Franz Eilhard Schulze (1840–1921) was a German zoologist who specialized in glass sponges, described Euplectella from Challenger material, and discovered Trichoplax adhaerens, the simplest known multicellular animal.
Franz Klein (Austrian molecular biologist)
Franz Klein is an Austrian molecular biologist and retired professor at the University of Vienna whose laboratory discovered the meiotic cohesin subunit Rec8 and studies meiotic recombination in budding yeast.
Franz Schrader
Franz Schrader (1891–1962) was a German-born American cytologist at Columbia University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1951, known for work on chromosomes and mitosis.
Franz von Leydig
Franz von Leydig (1821–1908) was a German zoologist and comparative anatomist, born in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, who discovered the testosterone-producing Leydig cells of the testis in 1850.
Franziska Michor
Franziska Michor is an Austrian-born computational biologist who earned a Harvard PhD at 22, holds the Charles A. Dana Chair in Human Cancer Genetics at Dana-Farber, and models cancer evolution and drug resistance.
Frauke Melchior
Frauke Melchior is a German biochemist and molecular cell biologist who became Rector of Heidelberg University in 2023, known for work placing SUMO protein modification at the nuclear pore.
Fred Chang
Fred Chang is an American cell biologist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco, known for work on cytokinesis and cell shape in fission yeast.
Fred Dyda
Fred Dyda is a structural biologist who leads the Structural Biochemistry Section at NIH's NIDDK in Bethesda, Maryland, and determined the first structure of HIV integrase in 1994.
Fred E. Cohen
Fred E. Cohen, born in 1956, is an American molecular biologist and physician who spent his career at UCSF studying protein folding and prion protein structure, later becoming a biotechnology venture capitalist.
Fred Gould
Fred Gould is an American entomologist and evolutionary biologist at North Carolina State University, known for work on insect-resistant crops, gene drives, and genetically engineered mosquitoes.
Fred H. Gage
Fred H. Gage, known as Rusty Gage, is an American neuroscientist at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, known for demonstrating adult neurogenesis in the human brain.
Fred Heffron
Frederick Lee Heffron Jr. was an American microbiologist known for research on Salmonella pathogenesis and on transposable elements, ending his career at Oregon Health & Science University.
Fred J Sigworth
Fred J Sigworth, born Frederick J. Sigworth in 1951, is an American biophysicist who co-developed the patch-clamp technique and spent his faculty career at Yale School of Medicine.
Fred Ramsdell
Frederick J. Ramsdell is an American immunologist who co-won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on peripheral immune tolerance and co-discovered Foxp3.
Fred Rapp
Fred Rapp (1929–2001) was an American virologist who chaired microbiology at Penn State's Hershey Medical Center from 1969 to 1990 and showed that herpes simplex virus type 2 can transform cells malignant.
Fred Rieke
Fred Rieke is a neuroscientist and professor at the University of Washington who studies how the retina processes visual signals at the limits set by noise.
Fred Russell Kramer
Fred Russell Kramer is a molecular biologist and professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School who invented molecular beacons and SuperSelective PCR primers for detecting rare cancer mutations.
Fred Sherman (yeast geneticist)
Fred Sherman (1932–2013) was an American yeast molecular geneticist at the University of Rochester, considered a founder of yeast genetics and the first yeast molecular biologist.
Fred Vlès
Fred Vlès (1885–1944) was a French zoologist turned biophysicist who founded France's first biophysics institute at the University of Strasbourg and pioneered the physical chemistry of the cell.
Fred W. Turek
Fred W. Turek is an American circadian and sleep biologist at Northwestern University, known for helping identify Clock, the first mammalian circadian clock gene, and for showing benzodiazepines can shift the clock.
Fred Winston
Fred Winston (born 1952) is an American yeast geneticist, the John Emory Andrus Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, known for studies of transcription and chromatin structure in yeast.
Freda D. Miller
Freda D. Miller is a Canadian developmental neurobiologist at the University of British Columbia known for isolating multipotent stem cells from adult mammalian skin in 2001.
Freddy Radtke
Freddy Radtke is a Swiss molecular biologist and professor at EPFL in Lausanne, known for work on the Notch signaling pathway in stem cells, the skin, the gut, and cancer.
Frédéric Berger
Frédéric Berger, also written Frederic Berger, is a French plant scientist at the Gregor Mendel Institute in Vienna, known for work on the histone variant H2A.W and epigenetic inheritance through pollen.
Frédéric Bremer
Frédéric Bremer (1892–1982) was a Belgian physiologist at the Université Libre de Bruxelles whose 1935 cerveau isolé and encéphale isolé cat preparations opened the experimental study of sleep.
Frederic D. Bushman
Frederic D. Bushman is an American molecular biologist at the University of Pennsylvania known for mapping where HIV integrates into the human genome and for microbiome research.