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Alexander Gusev

Alexander Gusev is an American statistical geneticist, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, known for the TWAS method and immunotherapy genetics research.

Andrew Wyllie (pathologist)

Andrew Wyllie (1944–2022) was a pathologist who co-discovered apoptosis, the genetically programmed form of cell death, and gave the field its first biochemical assay, the DNA laddering test.

Anthony John Iafrate

A. John Iafrate is an American molecular pathologist, Deputy Chair of Pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard professor, known for the SNaPshot cancer genotyping panel and anchored multiplex PCR.

Arnold M. Seligman

Arnold M. Seligman (1912–1976) was an American physician and histochemist who developed methods for showing enzymes and protein sulfhydryl groups in tissue sections and applied them to cancer.

Atul K. Bhan

Atul K. Bhan is a physician-scientist who is Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and a pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, known for inflammatory bowel disease research.

Brennan Decker

Brennan Decker is an American physician-scientist and molecular pathologist in genomic medicine and cancer genetics, known for consortium-scale analyses quantifying breast cancer risks from PALB2 variants.

Brooke T. Mossman

Brooke T. Mossman (Brooke Taylor Mossman) is an American cell biologist and fiber-toxicology researcher, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Vermont.

Carlos Caldas

Carlos Caldas, born 1960, is a clinician scientist and Professor of Cancer Medicine at Cambridge, known for the METABRIC study classifying breast cancer into 10 molecular types.

Carlos Cordon‐Cardo

Carlos Cordon-Cardo is a physician-scientist in experimental pathology and molecular oncology, Professor and System Chair of Pathology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai since 2011.

Carsten Denkert

Carsten Denkert is a German pathologist, Director and Chief Physician of the Institute of Pathology at Philipps-Universität Marburg, known for establishing tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes as a breast cancer biomarker.

Charles R. Cantor

Charles R. Cantor, born 1942, is an American molecular geneticist who helped found Sequenom, developed its noninvasive prenatal genetic tests, and directed a Human Genome Center at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Chris J.L.M. Meijer

Chris J.L.M. Meijer, also known as C. J. L. M. Meijer, is a Dutch pathologist and emeritus professor at Amsterdam UMC known for establishing which HPV types cause cervical cancer.

Christoph Lengauer

Christoph Lengauer is an Austrian molecular biologist and drug hunter who identified cancer driver genes at Johns Hopkins, then served as founding CSO of Blueprint Medicines.

Christoph Plass

Christoph Plass is a German cancer epigeneticist who has led the Division of Epigenomics and Cancer Risk Factors at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg since 2007.

Earl P. Benditt

Earl P. Benditt (1916–1996) was an American experimental pathologist who chaired pathology at the University of Washington from 1957 to 1981, known for the monoclonal hypothesis of atherosclerosis.

Ernest Edward Tyzzer

Ernest Edward Tyzzer (1875–1965) was an American physician and pathologist at Harvard Medical School, known for discovering Tyzzer's disease, foundational work on bird parasites, and early tumor-immunity research.

George G. Glenner

George G. Glenner was an American physician and research pathologist who worked out the chemistry of amyloid and in 1984 isolated the beta-amyloid protein central to Alzheimer's disease.

Giuseppe Viale

Giuseppe Viale, born in Turin in 1952, is an Italian pathologist and professor at the University of Milan known for breast cancer biomarkers and HER2 testing.

Hubert J. Wolfe

Hubert J. Wolfe is an American physician-scientist and pathologist at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, known for the 1973 discovery that C-cell hyperplasia precedes hereditary medullary thyroid carcinoma.

Jay L. Hess

Jay L. Hess is an American physician-scientist and hematopathologist known for research on MLL and HOX genes in leukemia, and dean of the Indiana University School of Medicine from 2013.

Jeffrey Sklar

Jeffrey L. Sklar is a pathologist and physician-scientist at Yale School of Medicine whose laboratory identified genes central to the molecular diagnosis of cancer, including BCL2 and NOTCH1.

Jochen K. Lennerz

Jochen K. Lennerz is a German-trained molecular pathologist who directed Massachusetts General Hospital's Center for Integrated Diagnostics, argued for oversight of laboratory-developed tests, and by 2026 worked at Natera.

John Kerr (pathologist)

John Kerr, full name John Foxton Ross Kerr, was an Australian pathologist who discovered apoptosis, named it in 1972, and spent his career at the University of Queensland.

Kojo Elenitoba-Johnson

Kojo S.J. Elenitoba-Johnson is an American molecular pathologist specializing in lymphoma and leukemia, inaugural chair of pathology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center since 2022.

Ludwig Pick

Ludwig Pick (1868–1944) was a German Jewish pathologist at Berlin's Friedrichshain hospital who delineated Niemann-Pick disease and was deported to Theresienstadt, dying there in 1944.

Marc Ladanyi

Marc Ladanyi is a molecular pathologist who is Chief of the Molecular Diagnostics Service and holds the William J. Ruane Chair in Molecular Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Mari Mino-Kenudson

Mari Mino-Kenudson is a pulmonary and molecular pathologist who directs pulmonary pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital and teaches at Harvard, known for validating ALK and ROS1 biomarker testing in lung cancer.

Matija Snuderl

Matija Snuderl is a neuropathologist and molecular pathologist who is Professor of Pathology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Director of Molecular Pathology at NYU Langone Health.

Philip Quirke

Philip Quirke is a British pathologist at the University of Leeds whose work on rectal cancer surgery margins changed practice and improved bowel cancer survival.

Rudolf Virchow

Rudolf Virchow (Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow, 1821–1902), German pathologist called the father of modern pathology; founder of cellular pathology and omnis cellula e cellula, author of Die Cellularpathologie (1858), founder of Virchow's Archiv, and social-medicine reformer.