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G. Stanley McKnight

G. Stanley McKnight was an American molecular biologist and pharmacology professor at the University of Washington, known for research on steroid hormone regulation of gene expression and PKA signaling.

G. Ulrich Nienhaus

Gerd Ulrich Nienhaus, born 1959 in Cologne, is a German biophysicist who has directed the Institute of Applied Physics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology since 2009.

G.E. Rogers

George Ernest Rogers (1927–2021) was an Australian biochemist at CSIRO and the University of Adelaide known for his work on the molecular structure of keratins and the biochemistry of keratinisation.

G.G. Brownlee

George Gow Brownlee, known as G.G. Brownlee, is a British biochemist and emeritus professor at the University of Oxford known for discovering pseudogenes, cloning the factor IX gene, and pioneering influenza reverse genetics.

Gábor Balázsi

Gábor Balázsi is a systems and synthetic biologist who is the Henry Laufer Professor at Stony Brook University, studying how gene expression noise shapes drug resistance and cancer metastasis.

Gabriel A. Dover

Gabriel A. Dover is a geneticist who was Professor of Genetics at the University of Leicester and originated molecular drive, his theory of evolution first published in Nature in 1982.

Gabriel Adrián Rabinovich

Gabriel Adrián Rabinovich is an Argentine immunologist and glycobiologist at the University of Buenos Aires known for defining how galectin-glycan interactions let tumors escape immune attack.

Gabriel Bertrand

Gabriel Bertrand (1867–1962) was a French biochemist, pharmacist, and bacteriologist who worked at the Institut Pasteur for 62 years, discovered the oxidase enzymes, and formulated Bertrand's rule of optimal trace element concentration.

Gabriel Corfas

Gabriel Corfas is a developmental neuroscientist at the University of Michigan who directs the Kresge Hearing Research Institute and studies neuron–glia signaling, myelination, and inner-ear synapse regeneration.

Gabriel H. Travis

Gabriel H. Travis is an American vision scientist and physician, Professor of Ophthalmology at UCLA since 2001, known for identifying Rpe65 as the visual cycle's retinoid isomerase.

Gabriel Horn

Gabriel Horn (1927–2012) was a British neuroscientist and zoologist at Cambridge who, through chick imprinting experiments, first identified a brain region where memory is stored, and was knighted in 2002.

Gabriel Lander

Gabriel C. Lander is a structural biologist and Professor at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for cryo-electron microscopy studies of the proteasome and molecular glue degraders.

Gabriel Nunez

Gabriel Núñez is an American immunologist and physician, the Paul H. De Kruif Professor of Pathology at the University of Michigan, known for identifying Nod-like receptors and linking NOD2 mutations to Crohn's disease.

Gabriel Victora

Gabriel D. Victora is a Brazilian-born immunologist who heads the Laboratory of Lymphocyte Dynamics at Rockefeller University, studying how germinal centers refine antibodies during infection and vaccination.

Gabriel Waksman

Gabriel Waksman (born 1957) is a structural biologist and biochemist at University College London and Birkbeck who determined the structures of the molecular machines bacteria use to transfer DNA, including antibiotic resistance genes.

Gabriele Bergers

Gabriele Bergers is a cancer biologist known for work on the angiogenic switch and tumor blood vessels, and a professor of oncology at KU Leuven since 2016.

Gabriele Varani

Gabriele Varani is an Italian structural biologist and NMR spectroscopist, a professor at the University of Washington known for RNA structure and RNA-targeted drug discovery.

Gabsang Lee

Gabsang Lee is a South Korean-born molecular biologist and Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins, known for deriving patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells modeling familial dysautonomia.

Gaby Maimon

Gaby Maimon is a neuroscientist at Rockefeller University, where he heads the Laboratory of Integrative Brain Function and studies how the fly brain computes navigation signals.

Gaia Novarino

Gaia Novarino is an Italian neuroscientist and professor at ISTA whose work shows some autism and epilepsy cases stem from amino acid defects and may be diet-treatable.

Gail Cardew

Gail Cardew is a British biologist who was Director of Science and Education at the Royal Institution and became the Linnean Society's first CEO in 2021.

Gail E. Besner

Gail E. Besner (Gail Ellen Besner) is an American pediatric surgeon-scientist, chief of Pediatric Surgery at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, known for discovering the growth factor HB-EGF.

Gail E. Sonenshein

Gail E. Sonenshein is a molecular biologist and professor at Tufts University School of Medicine who studies nuclear oncogenes in breast cancer and co-founded Adecto Pharmaceuticals in 2014 to develop ADAM8 antibody therapeutics.

Gail Mandel

Gail Mandel is an American molecular neuroscientist at the Vollum Institute of Oregon Health & Science University, known for discovering REST and developing site-directed RNA editing.

Gail R. Martin

Gail R. Martin was an American developmental biologist at UCSF who in 1981 derived pluripotent stem cells from mouse embryos and coined the term "embryonic stem cells".

Galit Alter

Galit Alter is an immunologist who developed Systems Serology, a method for profiling antibody function, and later joined Moderna as Vice President of Immunology Research.

Galit Lahav

Galit Lahav is a systems biologist who is Novartis Professor and Chair of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School, known for discovering that p53 pulses in single living cells.

Ganes C. Sen

Ganes C. Sen, also published as Ganes Sen, is a molecular biologist known for five decades of interferon research; at Yale he identified the antiviral enzymes PKR and RNase L.

Gang Greg Wang

Gang Greg Wang (王刚) is a chromatin biologist and cancer epigenetics researcher, a professor at the Duke Cancer Institute known for work on the DNMT3A R882 mutation in acute myeloid leukemia.

Gardner Lindzey

Gardner Lindzey (1920–2008) was an American social and behavioral scientist who founded the first US behavior genetics laboratory and directed Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.