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Gary Yellen

Gary Yellen is a biophysicist and neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024, known for ion channel biophysics and metabolic biosensors.

Gaudenz Danuser

Gaudenz Danuser is a computational biologist who develops computer-vision methods for live-cell imaging of cancer cells; he led bioinformatics at UT Southwestern before joining Roche's Institute of Human Biology in 2025.

Gautam Dantas

Gautam Dantas is a microbiologist at Washington University in St. Louis known for research on antibiotic resistance genes in soil, animals, and the human gut.

Gavin Kelsey

Gavin Kelsey is an epigeneticist who heads the Epigenetics program at the Babraham Institute in the United Kingdom, known for work on DNA methylation in oocytes and single-cell methylome methods.

Gavin Price

Gavin R. Price is a cognitive neuroscientist studying numerical cognition with fMRI, an Associate Professor at the University of Exeter and recipient of the 2025 PECASE award.

Gavin Sherlock

Gavin Sherlock is a yeast geneticist and Professor of Genetics at Stanford, coauthor of the Gene Ontology paper and known for lineage tracking of evolving yeast.

Gayan Mirihana Arachchilage

Gayan Mirihana Arachchilage is an RNA biologist who discovered more than 100 bacterial non-coding RNA motifs and three riboswitch classes in Ronald Breaker's Yale laboratory.

Gebhard Schertler

Gebhard F. X. Schertler, born 1957, is an Austrian structural biologist known for determining structures of membrane proteins and G protein-coupled receptors like rhodopsin, and headed Biology and Chemistry at the Paul Scherrer Institute.

Gebisa Ejeta

Gebisa Ejeta is an Ethiopian plant breeder and geneticist whose drought- and Striga-resistant sorghum hybrids transformed farming across sub-Saharan Africa, earning the 2009 World Food Prize.

Geert J.P.L. Kops

Geert J.P.L. Kops is a Dutch cell biologist who studies how cells segregate chromosomes during division; he directs the Hubrecht Institute and is a professor at UMC Utrecht.

Geeta J. Narlikar

Geeta J. Narlikar is an Indian-born chromatin biologist at UCSF known for work on chromatin remodeling and HP1 phase separation, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

Gen‐Sheng Feng

Gen-Sheng Feng (冯根生) is a molecular biologist known for discovering the signaling enzyme Shp2 and showing it can suppress liver cancer rather than promote it.

Gen'ichi Katō

Gen'ichi Katō (加藤元一) was a Japanese physiologist at Keio University who argued from 1923 that nerve impulses cross narcotised regions without decrement, and trained Ichiji Tasaki.

Gene E. Robinson

Gene E. Robinson is an American entomologist and behavioral biologist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who pioneered the genomics of social behavior using honey bees.

Gene H. Stollerman

Gene H. Stollerman (1921–2014) was an American physician and medical researcher known for showing that monthly penicillin injections prevent rheumatic fever, and later a Boston University geriatrics leader.

Gene Tyson

Gene W. Tyson is an Australian microbial ecologist and bioinformatician at Queensland University of Technology, known for metagenomics and for CheckM, a widely used genome-quality tool.

Gene‐Wei Li

Gene-Wei Li is a quantitative molecular biologist at MIT who studies how bacterial genomes encode precise protein levels; he joined MIT in 2015 and became an HHMI investigator in 2024.

Geneviève Almouzni

Geneviève Almouzni, born 1960, is a French chromatin and epigenetics researcher at CNRS and the Institut Curie in Paris, elected to the Académie des sciences in 2013.

Genevieve Konopka

Genevieve Konopka (Geneviève Konopka) is an American neuroscientist known for research on the genetics of human brain evolution, FOXP2, and autism, and chair of Neurobiology at UCLA.

Gennaro De Libero

Gennaro De Libero is an immunologist known for his work on CD1- and MR1-restricted T cells and γδ T cells, and a professor at the University of Basel.

Gennosuke Fuse

Gennosuke Fuse (布施現之助, 1880–1946) was a Japanese anatomist and first professor of anatomy at Tohoku Imperial University, known for the Mikroskopischer Atlas des menschlichen Gehirns.

Genoveffa Franchini

Genoveffa Franchini is an Italian-born hematologist and retrovirologist who heads the Animal Models and Retroviral Vaccines Section at the National Cancer Institute, known for HIV vaccine research.

Geoffrey Burnstock

Geoffrey Burnstock (1929–2020) was a British-born neuroscientist and pharmacologist who discovered that ATP acts as a neurotransmitter, founded purinergic signaling, and headed anatomy at University College London.

Geoffrey Chang

Geoffrey Chang is a structural biologist and professor at UC San Diego's Skaggs School of Pharmacy, known for x-ray structures of multidrug resistance transporters including P-glycoprotein and NorM.

Geoffrey J. Barton

Geoffrey J. Barton, known as Geoff Barton, is a British bioinformatician who holds the Chair of Bioinformatics at the University of Dundee and created the Jalview and JPred tools.

Geoffrey J. Faulkner

Geoffrey J. Faulkner is an Australian molecular biologist who studies somatic retrotransposition, the movement of mobile DNA such as LINE-1 within the genomes of individual brain cells.

Geoffrey L. Greene

Geoffrey L. Greene, also known as Geoffrey Greene, is a University of Chicago cancer researcher who helped clone the human estrogen receptor and solved how tamoxifen blocks its action.

Geoffrey L. Smith

Geoffrey L. Smith is a virologist and professor at Oxford's Dunn School of Pathology, known for showing that vaccinia virus, the smallpox vaccine, evades immunity with secreted receptors.

Geoffrey M. Cooper

Geoffrey M. Cooper (born 1948) is an American molecular biologist, Professor Emeritus at Boston University, known for discovering oncogenes in human cancers and writing The Cell: A Molecular Approach.

Geoffrey M. Wahl

Geoffrey M. Wahl, also known as Geoffrey Wahl, is an American molecular biologist and cancer researcher at the Salk Institute, known for linking p53 to genetic stability.