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Researchers in cardiovascular, metabolic, and endocrine research

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Eric Verdin

Eric Verdin is a Belgian-born physician-scientist studying how metabolism drives aging, known for sirtuin and NAD+ research and as president and CEO of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging since 2016.

Erik K. Alexander

Erik K. Alexander is an American endocrinologist who is Chief of the Thyroid Section at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Erik S.G. Stroes

Erik S.G. Stroes is a Dutch vascular internist and professor of Vascular Medicine at Amsterdam UMC, known for antisense trials in lipidology and hereditary angioedema.

Erin A. Bohula

Erin A. Bohula is an American critical care cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, known for leading the CAMELLIA-TIMI 61 and VESALIUS-CV trials.

Ernest Basil Verney

Ernest Basil Verney (1894–1967) was a British physiologist and pharmacologist who demonstrated continuous secretion of antidiuretic hormone and introduced the osmoreceptor concept in his 1947 Croonian Lecture.

Ernest Craige

Ernest Craige (1918–2008) was an American cardiologist and first chief of the Division of Cardiology at UNC Chapel Hill, known for New England Journal of Medicine studies on heart sounds and echocardiography.

Ernest Starling

Ernest Henry Starling was a British physiologist who held the Jodrell chair at University College London, discovered secretin in 1902, coined hormone, and formulated the law of the heart.

Ernesto Canalis

Ernesto Canalis is a Peruvian-trained American physician-scientist in endocrinology and bone biology, known for discovering skeletal growth factors and for work on anabolic osteoporosis therapies.

Ernst J. Schaefer

Ernst J. Schaefer (E. J. Schaefer) is an American physician and lipid metabolism researcher at Tufts University, known for defining HDL metabolism and the defect in Tangier disease.

Ernst Laqueur

Ernst Laqueur (1880–1947) was a German-born Dutch pharmacologist and Amsterdam professor who became the first in Europe to produce insulin and co-founded Organon.

Ervin Ray Fox

Ervin Ray Fox is an American cardiologist at the University of Mississippi Medical Center who studies heart disease in African Americans and received the 2011 Presidential Early Career Award.

Esko A. Nikkilä

Esko A. Nikkilä (1926–1986) was a Finnish professor of medicine at the University of Helsinki, a pioneer of lipid and diabetes research who co-authored the Helsinki Heart Study.

Eugene Braunwald

Eugene Braunwald (1929–2026) was a Vienna-born American cardiologist at Harvard who founded the TIMI Study Group and edited Braunwald's Heart Disease, called the father of modern cardiology.

Eugene Floyd DuBois

Eugene Floyd DuBois (1882–1959) was an American physician and clinical physiologist at Cornell who standardized basal metabolic rate measurement and devised the 1916 DuBois body-surface-area formula still used in medicine.

Eugène Gley

Eugène Gley (1857–1930) was a French physiologist, professor at the Collège de France, who first assigned the parathyroid glands a vital role and became a cofounder of organotherapy and endocrinology.

Eugene R. Passamani

Eugene R. Passamani, also known as Eugene Passamani, was an American cardiologist and clinical trialist who spent about 20 years at NIH in Bethesda, Maryland.

Eugenio Picano

Eugenio Picano, born in Cassino in 1958, is an Italian cardiologist at the CNR Institute of Clinical Physiology in Pisa, known for stress echocardiography and lung ultrasound.

Eva Lonn

Eva Lonn is a Canadian cardiologist and clinical trialist, Professor of Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, who led the HOPE-3 cholesterol-lowering trial published in 2016.

Evangelia G. Kranias

Evangelia G. Kranias, known as Litsa Kranias, is a Greek-born cardiovascular scientist at the University of Cincinnati whose research established phospholamban as a central regulator of cardiac contraction.

Evangelos D. Michelakis

Evangelos D. Michelakis is a Greek-born Canadian cardiologist at the University of Alberta who studies pulmonary hypertension, heart failure, and cancer through mitochondrial metabolism, running the first clinical trials of mitochondria-targeting drugs.

Ewan R. Pearson

Ewan R. Pearson is a British physician-scientist, Professor of Diabetic Medicine at the University of Dundee, known for showing that a patient's genetic diagnosis determines which diabetes drug works.

F. Mason Sones

F. Mason Sones was an American physician at the Cleveland Clinic who performed the first selective coronary arteriogram in 1958, developed cine coronary arteriography, and won the 1983 Lasker Award.

Faı̈ez Zannad

Faıëz Zannad, also written Faiez Zannad, is a French cardiologist and clinical trialist at the University of Lorraine who chaired the EMPHASIS-HF and EMPEROR-Reduced heart failure trials.

Farahe Maloof

Farahe Maloof is an endocrinologist and thyroid researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, publishing from 1951 on radioactive iodine therapy and thyrotropin-secreting pituitary tumors.

Fastone Mathew Goma

Fastone Mathew Goma is a Zambian physician-scientist and cardiologist at the University of Zambia known for tobacco control research and cardiovascular epidemiology, including the ITC Zambia surveys.

Felix Zijlstra

Felix Zijlstra is a Dutch interventional cardiologist, head of cardiology at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, known for the Zwolle trials and for chairing the TAPAS thrombus-aspiration trial.

Filip Swirski

Filip Swirski is a Polish-born immunologist known for work on monocytes and macrophages in atherosclerosis; since 2021 he has directed the Cardiovascular Research Institute at Mount Sinai in New York.

Filippo Crea

Filippo Crea, born in Cosenza, Italy, in 1953, is an Italian cardiologist known for establishing that ischemic heart disease involves the coronary microcirculation, not only large-artery narrowing.

Finlay A. McAlister

Finlay A. McAlister is a Canadian general internist and clinical researcher at the University of Alberta, known for outcomes research in heart failure, hypertension, and coronary artery disease.

Fiona M. Gribble

Fiona M. Gribble is Professor of Endocrine Physiology at the University of Cambridge, where she studies gut hormones including GLP-1 and GIP, the hormones behind semaglutide and tirzepatide.