Life scientists

Gareth Griffiths (cell biologist)

Gareth Griffiths is a cell biologist who led a research group at EMBL Heidelberg from 1977 to 2009, then became a professor at the University of Oslo.

Garnett Kelsoe

Garnett Kelsoe is an American immunologist, the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Immunology at Duke, known for germinal center and B cell tolerance research.

Garret D. Stuber is a neuroscientist who studies neural circuits of reward and motivation; he is a professor at the University of Washington, where he has led a center for addiction research since 2018.

Garry Nolan

Garry P. Nolan is a Stanford immunologist known for pioneering mass cytometry and CODEX, tools that measure dozens of proteins in single cells and tissue.

Garth L. Nicolson

Garth L. Nicolson is an American cell biologist who co-authored the 1972 fluid-mosaic model of cell membranes with S. J. Singer, and later studied chronic mycoplasmal infections in Gulf War illness.

Gary A. Glatzmaier

Gary A. Glatzmaier is an American geophysicist who produced the first 3D computer simulations of Earth's geodynamo, showing spontaneous magnetic reversals, and is Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Cruz.

Gary A. Koretzky

Gary A. Koretzky is an American immunologist whose work on CD45 and adapter proteins like SLP-76 defined T cell receptor signaling; he became Cornell's vice provost for research in 2025.

Gary Aston‐Jones

Gary Aston-Jones is an American neuroscientist who directs the Brain Health Institute at Rutgers University and is known for the adaptive-gain theory of locus coeruleus function and orexin's role in addiction.

Gary Banker

Gary Banker, also known as Gary A. Banker, is a cellular and molecular neuroscientist known for defining how a developing neuron acquires its polarized shape.

Gary D. Stormo

Gary D. Stormo is a computational biologist who introduced the position weight matrix for modeling protein binding sites, and was a longtime genetics professor at Washington University in St. Louis.

Gary D. Wu

Gary D. Wu is an American physician-scientist and molecular biologist at the University of Pennsylvania known for linking long-term dietary patterns to gut microbial enterotypes.

Gary E. Landreth

Gary E. Landreth is an American neuroscientist at the Indiana University School of Medicine who directed Case Western Reserve's Alzheimer Research Laboratory for 27 years and studies Alzheimer's risk genes.

Gary E. Shull

Gary E. Shull, also known as Gary Shull, is a molecular biologist at the University of Cincinnati known for sequencing the sodium pump and the 1998 NHE3 knockout study.

Gary Felsenfeld

Gary Felsenfeld (1929–2024) was an American physical chemist who spent his career at the National Institutes of Health studying chromatin, identifying CTCF as the insulator protein behind genomic enhancer blocking.

Gary G. Borisy

Gary G. Borisy is an American cell biologist who discovered the protein tubulin and developed the dendritic nucleation model of actin-based cell motility, a career-long study of the cytoskeleton.

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Gary Greenberg

Gary Greenberg is an American micro photographer, biomedical researcher, and inventor who holds 19 US patents for high-definition 3D light microscopes and photographs sand grains.

Gary H. Karpen

Gary H. Karpen is an American molecular biologist who studies centromeres, heterochromatin, and genome stability in Drosophila, and is a professor at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Gary Huang

Gary B. Huang is a research scientist and software engineer at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus who applies machine learning to reconstructing fruit fly connectomes, and created the Labeled Faces in the Wild benchmark.

Gary J. Bassell

Gary J. Bassell is an American cell biologist at Emory University School of Medicine who studies how mRNA regulation in neurons is lost in fragile X syndrome.

Gary J. Nabel

Gary J. Nabel, also known as Gary Nabel, is an American virologist and immunologist known for DNA vaccines and HIV immunogen design, and CEO of ModeX Therapeutics.

Gary K. Schoolnik

Gary K. Schoolnik is a physician and Professor of Medicine, Emeritus, at Stanford, known for research on bacterial pili, adhesins, and the molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis.

Gary L. Westbrook

Gary L. Westbrook is an American neuroscientist and neurologist at OHSU's Vollum Institute, known for work on NMDA receptors, synaptic plasticity, and memory, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2008.

Gary Lynch

Gary Lynch is an American neuroscientist at the University of California, Irvine, known for his research on long-term potentiation, a synaptic basis of memory, and for co-inventing the ampakine class of drugs.

Gary N. Calkins

Gary Nathan Calkins (1869–1943) was an American protozoologist at Columbia University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1919, known for his Paramecium aging experiments.

Gary Ruvkun

Gary Ruvkun is an American molecular biologist at Harvard Medical School who won half of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering microRNA.

Gary S. Stein

Gary S. Stein is an American cell and cancer biologist, Professor and Chair of Biochemistry at the University of Vermont, known for research on Runx2 and mitotic gene bookmarking.

Gary Stacey

Gary Stacey is an American plant scientist at the University of Missouri known for research on plant-microbe interactions and the first plant receptor for extracellular ATP.

Gary Struhl

Gary Struhl is an American developmental geneticist at Columbia University known for discovering how Notch, Wnt, and Hedgehog signals pattern the fruit fly, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2008.

Gary Thomas (cell biologist)

Gary Thomas is an American cell biologist, professor at the University of Pittsburgh and researcher at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, known for identifying furin and the PACS proteins.