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Gerald S. Shadel

Gerald S. Shadel is an American molecular biologist and Salk Institute professor known for showing that mitochondrial DNA released under stress acts as an antiviral signal.

Gerald Schatten

Gerald Schatten (born 1949) is an American reproductive and developmental biologist at the University of Pittsburgh known for showing that the sperm supplies the centrosome at fertilization.

Gerald Schwank

Gerald Schwank is a Swiss professor at the University of Zurich's Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology who develops CRISPR genome-editing tools to correct disease-causing mutations.

Gerald T. Nepom

Gerald T. Nepom, known as Jerry Nepom, is an American immunologist who mapped HLA class II genes predisposing people to type 1 diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis.

Gerald W. Dorn

Gerald W. Dorn, also known as Gerald W. Dorn II, is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist at Washington University in St. Louis who studies how genes affect heart failure drug response.

Gerald W. Hart

Gerald W. Hart is an American glycobiologist who discovered O-GlcNAcylation in 1983 and led biological chemistry at Johns Hopkins before joining the University of Georgia.

Gerald W. Zamponi

Gerald Zamponi is a neuroscientist at the University of Calgary whose research on voltage-gated calcium channels and chronic pain made him a Royal Society of Canada Fellow.

Geraldine Hamilton

Geraldine A. Hamilton is a British cell biologist and toxicologist who formerly served as President and Chief Scientific Officer of Emulate, Inc., the Boston company commercializing human Organs-on-Chips.

Géraldine Seydoux

Géraldine Seydoux is a French-born American developmental biologist at Johns Hopkins and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, known for showing that transcriptional repression establishes the germline.

Gérard Eberl

Gérard Eberl is a French-based immunologist, professor at the Institut Pasteur in Paris since 2014, known for research on how gut microbiota regulate immune responses.

Gerard Evan

Gerard Evan is a British cancer biologist who studies the Myc oncogene and p53, and pioneered mice in which cancer genes can be reversibly toggled.

Gérard Roelfes

Gerard Roelfes is a Dutch chemist and full professor at the University of Groningen, where he directs the Stratingh Institute and is known for DNA-based asymmetric catalysis and designer enzymes with unnatural amino acids.

Gerard Wong

Gerard C. L. Wong is a UCLA professor of bioengineering, chemistry, and microbiology who studies bacterial biofilms and antibiotic-resistant infections, known for his 2013 Nature paper on Psl trails.

Gerd A. Blobel

Gerd A. Blobel is a physician-scientist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia who studies red blood cell gene regulation and chromatin looping, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2025.

Gerd Jürgens

Gerd Jürgens (born 1949) is a German plant developmental biologist, emeritus Max Planck director in Tübingen, whose genetic screens established how plant embryos build their body axis.

Gerd Kempermann

Gerd Kempermann (born 1965 in Cologne) is a German neuroscientist at TU Dresden who studies adult hippocampal neurogenesis, known for a 1997 Nature study showing enriched environments grow new neurons.

Gerd P. Pfeifer

Gerd P. Pfeifer is a molecular biologist and Professor of Epigenetics at Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan, known for mapping DNA methylation and tobacco carcinogen damage at single-nucleotide resolution.

Gereon Fink

Gereon R. Fink is a German neurologist and neuroscientist who directs the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine at Forschungszentrum Jülich and the Department of Neurology at University Hospital Cologne.

Gergely Csibra

Gergely Csibra is a developmental cognitive neuroscientist who studies how infants understand actions, communication, and mental states, known for the theory of natural pedagogy and elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2017.

Gerhard Giebisch

Gerhard Giebisch (1927–2020) was an Austrian-born cellular physiologist who spent six decades at Yale working out how the kidney handles potassium, becoming Sterling Professor Emeritus.

Gerhard Hummer

Gerhard Hummer (born 1966) is an Austrian theoretical biophysicist who has directed the Department of Theoretical Biophysics at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt since 2013.

Gerhard Klebe

Gerhard Klebe is a German chemist and structural biologist, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at the Philipps-Universität Marburg from 1996 to 2020, known for structure-based drug design and co-founding BioSolveIT.

Gerhard Meissner

Gerhard Meissner (1937–2021) was a German-born biochemist and biophysicist at UNC Chapel Hill known for purifying and reconstituting the ryanodine receptor, the skeletal muscle calcium release channel.

Gerhard Schmidt (biochemist)

Gerhard Schmidt (1901–1981) was a German-born American biochemist who spent over forty years at Tufts University School of Medicine, known for the Schmidt–Thannhauser method for measuring DNA and RNA.

Gerhard Schramm

Gerhard Schramm (1910–1969) was a German biochemist at the Max Planck Institute for Virus Research in Tübingen who showed in 1956 that RNA is tobacco mosaic virus's genetic material.

Gerhard Wagner (biophysicist)

Gerhard Wagner, born 1945, is a Harvard Medical School biophysicist known for protein NMR spectroscopy, where he has been a professor since 1990 and developed triple-resonance NMR methods.

Gerhart U. Ryffel

Gerhart U. Ryffel is a molecular and developmental biologist known for the Xenopus vitellogenin gene system as a model of steroid hormone control, and later HNF1 and HNF4.

Gero Miesenböck

Gero Miesenböck, born 1965 in Upper Austria, is an Austrian neuroscientist and Waynflete Professor of Physiology at Oxford who established optogenetics, controlling neurons with light.

Gerold Schubiger

Gerold Schubiger is a developmental biologist and professor at the University of Washington, known for research on cell cycle control and regeneration in the fruit fly Drosophila.

Gerold Schuler

Gerold Schuler is an Austrian-born dermatologist and immunologist known for discovering dendritic cell maturation and for developing dendritic cell vaccines against cancer at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen in Germany.