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George R. Siggins
George Robert Siggins was an American neuroscientist who used electrophysiology to show how norepinephrine and alcohol act on single neurons, working at NIMH, the Salk Institute, and Scripps.
George R. Uhl
George R. Uhl is an American neuroscientist and board-certified neurologist known for cloning the cocaine-sensitive dopamine transporter and for genetic and transporter-based studies of addiction, now a professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
George S. Eisenbarth
George S. Eisenbarth (1947–2012) was an American diabetologist and immunologist who established type 1 diabetes as a chronic autoimmune disease, arguing insulin is its principal autoantigen.
George Seidel
George E. Seidel Jr. (1943–2021) was an American reproductive physiologist at Colorado State University whose laboratory turned embryo transfer, embryo splitting, and sexed semen into working cattle-industry tools.
George Sperling
George Sperling is an American vision scientist at the University of California, Irvine, best known for the 1960 partial-report experiments that demonstrated iconic memory, the brief visual store holding a whole scene.
George Stamatoyannopoulos
George Stamatoyannopoulos (1934–2018) was a Greek-born American geneticist and hematologist at the University of Washington whose fetal hemoglobin research underlies modern sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia therapies.
George Streisinger
George Streisinger (1927–1984) was a Hungarian-born American molecular biologist and geneticist at the University of Oregon who worked on T-even phage genetics and in 1981 published the first method for cloning a vertebrate, using zebrafish.
George Sumner Huntington
George Sumner Huntington (1861–1927) was an American comparative anatomist who held Columbia University's anatomy chair for 35 years and pioneered linking evolutionary theory with human anatomy.
George Thomas (molecular biologist)
George Thomas is an American molecular biologist known for purifying and cloning S6K1 and S6K2, kinases downstream of mTORC1, and for work linking S6K1 to obesity and diabetes.
George W. Corner
George W. Corner (1889–1981) was an American anatomist and reproductive physiologist who helped identify progesterone, proposed its name in 1935, and led the Carnegie Institution's Department of Embryology.
George Wald
George Wald (1906–1997) was an American biologist at Harvard who identified vitamin A as the light-absorbing molecule of vision, winning the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
George Weber (biochemist)
George Weber was a biochemist and physician at the Indiana University School of Medicine who founded the enzymology of cancer cells and developed the Molecular Correlation Concept.
George William Bartelmez
George William Bartelmez (1885–1967) was an American embryologist who spent most of his career at the University of Chicago and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1949.
George Yancopoulos
George Damis Yancopoulos is an American physician-scientist and co-founder of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. He is known for his work in molecular immunology, having been the principal inventor of nine FDA-approved medicines.
George‐Lucian Moldovan
George-Lucian Moldovan is a Romanian-trained molecular biologist, professor and Vice Chair for Research at Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania, who studies DNA replication stress and genomic stability.
Georges Barski
Georges Barski (1909–1985) was a Polish-born French biologist who discovered somatic cell hybridization at the Institut Gustave-Roussy in Villejuif, a technique that later enabled gene mapping and monoclonal antibodies.
Georges Mer
Georges Mer is a structural biologist and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who studies chromatin modifications in DNA damage repair.
Georgii P. Georgiev
Georgii Pavlovich Georgiev (Георгий Павлович Георгиев) is a Soviet and Russian molecular biologist, born in Leningrad in 1933, who discovered nuclear dRNA as the precursor of messenger RNA.
Georgios Skiniotis
Georgios Skiniotis is a structural biologist known for cryo-EM structures of GPCR–G protein and β-arrestin complexes, who won the 2011 PECASE and joined St. Jude in 2024.
Geraint Rees
Geraint Rees is a neurologist and cognitive neuroscientist at University College London, Professor of Cognitive Neurology since 2006 and Vice Provost since 2022, studying the neural basis of consciousness.
Gerald B. Pier
Gerald B. Pier is an American microbiologist and immunologist, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, known for linking the CFTR protein to clearance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Gerald D. Fasman
Gerald D. Fasman was a Canadian-born American biochemist at Brandeis University who co-developed the Chou–Fasman method for predicting protein secondary structure from amino acid sequence.
Gerald D. Fischbach
Gerald D. Fischbach, also known as Gerald Fischbach, is an American neuroscientist known for work on synapse formation who directed NINDS, served as Columbia's medical dean, and founded SFARI.
Gerald H. Jacobs
Gerald H. Jacobs (1934–2025) was an American visual neuroscientist at UC Santa Barbara who studied how color vision varies across mammals, from squirrel monkeys to mice.
Gerald L. Hazelbauer
Gerald L. Hazelbauer is an American biochemist known for his research on bacterial chemotaxis in E. coli and a professor emeritus at the University of Missouri.
Gerald Litwack
Gerald Litwack (1929–2023) was an American biochemist known for the 1971 ligandin discovery and for editing Vitamins and Hormones; he last taught at Texas A&M Health Science Center.
Gerald M. Edelman
Gerald M. Edelman (1929–2014) was an American immunologist and neuroscientist who determined the chemical structure of antibodies, sharing the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Gerald R. Fink
Gerald R. Fink is an American yeast geneticist and founding member of the Whitehead Institute who first showed DNA can be taken up by yeast, making it a model eukaryote.
Gerald R. Smith
Gerald R. Smith is an American molecular biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle who studies DNA repair by homologous recombination in E. coli and fission yeast.
Gerald Rubin
Gerald M. Rubin is an American Drosophila geneticist and neurobiologist who co-developed P-element transgenesis, led the fly genome project, and drove mapping of the fly brain connectome.