Researchers in infectious disease, epidemiology, vaccines, and global health

Fang Fang

Fang Fang is a Swedish-based neuroepidemiologist and professor of epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, known for research on suicide after cancer diagnosis and ALS risk factors.

Feiko O. ter Kuile

Feiko O. ter Kuile (born 1962) is a Dutch malaria epidemiologist and clinical tropical-medicine researcher, Professor of Tropical Epidemiology at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine since 2003.

Félix d'Hérelle (1873–1949) was a French-Canadian microbiologist who discovered the bacteriophage, a virus that kills bacteria, reported it in 1917, and first used it to treat dysentery patients in 1919.

Félix Dévé

Félix Augustin Dévé (1872–1951) was a French physician and hospital doctor in Rouen, regarded as the great specialist of echinococcosis, a parasitic disease causing hydatid cysts.

Ferdinand Hueppe

Ferdinand Hueppe (1852–1938) was a German bacteriologist and hygienist, professor at the German University in Prague, and the first president of the German Football Association, 1900 to 1904.

Fernando P. Polack

Fernando P. Polack is an Argentine pediatric infectious disease researcher at Vanderbilt University known for RSV research and leading the Pfizer–BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine trial in Argentina.

Florence R. Sabin

Florence R. Sabin was an American anatomist who became the first woman full professor at Johns Hopkins and pioneered research on the lymphatic system and tuberculosis.

Florian Krammer

Florian Krammer is a virologist and vaccinologist, the Mount Sinai Professor of Vaccinology since 2019, known for a universal influenza vaccine candidate tested in humans.

Francis A. Plummer

Francis A. Plummer, known as Frank Plummer, was a Canadian HIV/AIDS researcher who led the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg and identified HIV-resistant sex workers in Nairobi.

Francis V. Chisari

Francis V. Chisari, known as Frank Chisari, is an American virologist and immunologist at The Scripps Research Institute who defined how the immune system clears hepatitis B and C.

Francisca Mutapi

Francisca Mutapi is a Zimbabwean medical researcher and professor at the University of Edinburgh whose work on schistosomiasis opened treatment to 50 million African preschool children.

Francisco M. Marty

Francisco M. Marty was a Harvard infectious disease physician who led the 2017 trial that made letermovir the first approved CMV prophylaxis drug after stem-cell transplantation.

Frank E. Speizer

Frank E. Speizer (born 1935) is an American epidemiologist at Harvard who founded the Nurses' Health Study and led the Harvard Six Cities air pollution study.

Frank Plummer

Frank Plummer, born Francis Allan Plummer, was a Canadian microbiologist whose study of HIV-resistant Nairobi sex workers shaped vaccine research; he led Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory.

Frank Shann

Frank Shann is an Australian pediatric intensivist and vaccine researcher at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, known for childhood pneumonia research in Papua New Guinea and vaccine non-specific effects.

Fred Neufeld

Fred Neufeld (1869–1945) was a German bacteriologist who directed the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin from 1917 to 1933 and established pneumococcal serotyping, the Quellung reaction, and the bile solubility test.

Freddie Bray

Freddie Bray is a cancer epidemiologist who heads the Cancer Surveillance Branch at IARC in Lyon, France, and leads GLOBOCAN, the worldwide estimates of cancer incidence and mortality.

Frédéric B. Piel

Frédéric B. Piel is a spatial epidemiologist and Associate Professor at Imperial College London who maps the global health burden of sickle cell disease and other haemoglobinopathies.

Frederick G. Hayden

Frederick G. Hayden is an American clinical virologist and emeritus professor at the University of Virginia who helped develop seven approved influenza antiviral drugs and co-edits Clinical Virology.

Frederick Griffith

Frederick Griffith (died 1941) was a British bacteriologist at the Ministry of Health's London laboratory who in 1928 reported bacterial transformation, the heritable change whose agent, identified as DNA in 1944, began molecular genetics.

Frederick L. Altice

Frederick L. Altice is a Yale professor of medicine and epidemiology who has directed its HIV in Prisons Program since 1991, researching HIV, hepatitis, and tuberculosis in prisoners and people who inject drugs.

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Frederick M. Burkle Jr.

Frederick M. "Skip" Burkle Jr. is an American physician and founding figure in disaster medicine who served over 17 years at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.

Frederick Twort

Frederick William Twort was a British bacteriologist who in 1915 first described the bacteria-killing agent later known as bacteriophage, and identified the growth factor behind vitamin K.

Fredros O Okumu

Fredros O Okumu, born in Kenya in 1981, is a Kenyan malaria researcher and professor at the University of Glasgow known for tools against outdoor-biting mosquitoes.

Friedrich Fehleisen

Friedrich Fehleisen (1854–1924) was a German physician and surgeon who, working at Würzburg, isolated the erysipelas streptococcus in pure culture and proved experimentally that it causes the disease.

Friedrich Loeffler

Friedrich Loeffler (1852–1915) was a German bacteriologist who isolated the diphtheria bacillus in 1884 and, with Paul Frosch, showed in 1898 that foot-and-mouth disease was caused by the first animal virus.

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Fritz H. Schroder

Fritz H. Schröder is a German-born urologist who chaired urology at Erasmus University Rotterdam and initiated the European Randomized study of Screening for Prostate Cancer.

Gagandeep Kang

Gagandeep Kang (गगनदीप कांग) is an Indian physician-scientist known for research on enteric infections in children and for trials that carried the Indian-made rotavirus vaccine Rotavac into India's national immunization program.

Garth Graham

Garth Graham (born 1975) is a Jamaican-born American cardiologist and health-equity researcher, a National Academy of Medicine member who has directed YouTube's healthcare work since 2021 after federal and Aetna roles.