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Researchers in cardiovascular, metabolic, and endocrine research

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Frances Eileen Carr

Frances Eileen Carr is an American molecular endocrinologist and Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Vermont, known for research on thyroid hormone receptors in cancer.

Frances M. Ashcroft

Frances M. Ashcroft is a British physiologist at Oxford whose work on KATP channels explained insulin secretion and let neonatal diabetes patients switch from insulin to tablets.

Francesco Cosentino

Francesco Cosentino is an Italian-born cardiologist and professor of clinical cardiovascular research at Karolinska Institutet, chair of the 2019 ESC diabetes guidelines and ESC vice-president.

Francesco P. Cappuccio

Francesco P. Cappuccio is a British-based Italian physician-scientist at the University of Warwick, known for research on dietary salt, blood pressure, and sleep as a cardiovascular risk factor.

Francesco Violi

Francesco Violi is an Italian professor of internal medicine at Sapienza University of Rome, retired in 2020, known for research linking gut bacterial molecules to heart attack and stroke risk.

Francis E. Marchlinski

Francis E. Marchlinski is an American cardiac electrophysiologist who directs electrophysiology at the University of Pennsylvania and is known for developing substrate-based catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia.

Francis J. Doyle III

Francis J. Doyle III is an American control engineer known for the artificial pancreas and for serving as dean of Harvard SEAS and provost of Brown University.

Francis J. Klocke

Francis J. Klocke is an American cardiologist and professor emeritus at Northwestern University, founding director of its cardiovascular research institute and a past president of the American College of Cardiology.

François M. Abboud

François M. Abboud, also known as F M Abboud, is an Egyptian-born American cardiologist at the University of Iowa known for research on autonomic control of the circulation.

Frank A. Finnerty

Frank A. Finnerty, Jr. (1924–2011) was an American physician-scientist in cardiology based in Washington, D.C., who studied hypertension and its drug treatment and the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.

Frank Hu

Frank B. Hu is a nutritional epidemiologist who chairs the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and studies diet, lifestyle, and type 2 diabetes prevention.

Frank M. Sacks

Frank M. Sacks is a Harvard professor of cardiovascular disease prevention who designed the DASH diet trial and led the OmniHeart, PoundsLost, and MIND trials.

Frank Norman Wilson

Frank Norman Wilson (1890–1952) was an American cardiologist at the University of Michigan who created the Wilson central terminal and the precordial lead system underlying the modern 12-lead electrocardiogram.

Frank Ruschitzka

Frank Ruschitzka is a cardiologist who directs the Clinic for Cardiology at University Hospital Zurich and is a professor of cardiology at the University of Zurich, specializing in heart failure and heart transplantation.

Frans Van de Werf

Frans Van de Werf is a Belgian cardiologist, emeritus professor at the University of Leuven, who pioneered thrombolytic therapy for heart attacks and led major international trials.

Franz H. Messerli

Franz H. Messerli, born 1942, is a Swiss-born cardiologist and hypertension researcher who led hypertension programs in New Orleans and New York and argued against beta-blockers as first-line therapy.

Franz–Josef Neumann

Franz–Josef Neumann is a German interventional cardiologist who directed cardiology at the Heart Centre Bad Krozingen from 2001 to 2022 and chaired the 2018 ESC/EACTS revascularization guidelines.

Fred Morady

Fred Morady is an American cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist who directed the electrophysiology laboratory at the University of Michigan from 1984 to 2004 and helped shape modern arrhythmia treatment.

Frederic C. Bartter

Frederic C. Bartter (1914–1983) was a Filipino-born American endocrinologist who described the salt-losing disorder Bartter syndrome and long led the hypertension endocrine branch at the NIH.

Frederick C. Goetz

Frederick C. Goetz (1922–2012) was an American diabetologist at the University of Minnesota Medical School who directed the UGDP diabetes trial clinic and helped bring kidney and pancreas transplantation to diabetic patients.

Frederick E. Dewey

Frederick E. Dewey is a cardiologist and human geneticist who trained at Stanford and led translational genetics at the Regeneron Genetics Center, studying rare gene variants as drug targets.

Frederick L. Brancati

Frederick L. Brancati was an American physician and epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins who specialized in preventing type 2 diabetes and directed its Division of General Internal Medicine until his 2013 death.

Frederick Raal

Frederick J. Raal is a South African endocrinologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, known for first-author trials of evolocumab, inclisiran, and evinacumab in familial hypercholesterolaemia.

Fredric E. Wondisford

Fredric E. Wondisford is an American physician-scientist in endocrinology and diabetes who has served as dean of the University of Arizona College of Medicine–Phoenix since 2023.

Fredrick J. Stare

Fredrick J. Stare (1910–2002) was an American nutritionist and physician who founded and chaired Harvard's Department of Nutrition from 1942 to 1976, becoming a controversial figure in food-industry funding debates.

Freek W.A. Verheugt

Freek W.A. Verheugt is a Dutch cardiologist, emeritus professor of cardiology at Radboud University Medical Centre in Nijmegen, known for the ICTUS trial and anticoagulation research.

Fritz R. Bühler

Fritz R. Bühler (1940–2017) was a Swiss cardiologist and hypertension researcher who built the hypertension division at University Hospital Basel and helped match blood-pressure drugs to patients.

Fuller Albright

Fuller Albright (1900–1969) was an American endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard who built the modern clinical study of calcium metabolism and metabolic bone disease, coining postmenopausal osteoporosis.

G. Michael Felker

G. Michael Felker is an American cardiologist at Duke University who leads clinical trials in heart failure and served as President of the Heart Failure Society of America.

G.D. Aurbach

G.D. Aurbach, also known as Gerald D. Aurbach, was an American endocrinologist at the National Institutes of Health known for purifying parathyroid hormone and developing its first radioimmunoassay.