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Ian Tomlinson

Ian Tomlinson, born 1963, is a British cancer geneticist and Professor of Cancer Genetics at Oxford, known for inherited cancer genes and the 'just right' model.

IanR. Mackay

Ian Reay Mackay (1922–2020) was an Australian clinical immunologist and hepatologist who established autoimmunity as a cause of chronic liver disease and pioneered immunosuppressive drug treatment for autoimmune hepatitis.

Ibrahim Abubakar

Ibrahim Abubakar is a Nigerian-born British infectious disease epidemiologist at University College London, known for tuberculosis research and the UCL–Lancet Commission on Migration and Health.

Ichizo Nishino

Ichizo Nishino is a Japanese neurologist and muscle disease researcher at the NCNP in Tokyo, known for identifying the causes of Danon disease and GNE myopathy.

Ick Chan Kwon

Ick Chan Kwon, born 1959 in Daegu, South Korea, is a drug delivery and nanomedicine scientist who spent his career as a principal research scientist at KIST.

Ida M. Martinson

Ida M. Martinson is an American nurse scientist known for founding research on home care for children dying of cancer and for cross-cultural studies of family caregiving in China.

Ida M. Onorato

Ida M. Onorato is an American physician-epidemiologist at the CDC's Division of Tuberculosis Elimination in Atlanta, known for 1990s research on tuberculosis among foreign-born persons.

Ida Sim

Ida Sim is an American physician and medical informatics researcher at UCSF, a co-founder of Vivli who was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022.

Iekuni Ichikawa

Iekuni Ichikawa is a Japanese-born nephrologist and pediatric physician-scientist who trained at UCSF and Harvard and spent 1985 to 2015 at Vanderbilt University, where his research helped establish CAKUT as a disease entity.

Igho Ofotokun

Igho Ofotokun, also known as Ighovwerha Ofotokun, is an American physician-scientist in infectious diseases whose ACTG 5257 trial shaped US HIV treatment guidelines; he was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023.

Ignace Vergote

Ignace Vergote is a Belgian gynecologic oncologist at KU Leuven who led the EORTC 55971 ovarian cancer trial and the innovaTV 301 trial of tisotumab vedotin in cervical cancer.

Ignacio Melero

Ignacio Melero is a Spanish cancer immunologist, Professor of Immunology at the Universidad de Navarra, known for his research on the co-stimulatory molecule 4-1BB (CD137).

Igor B. Roninson

Igor B. Roninson is a cancer researcher known for cloning the mdr1 multidrug resistance gene and discovering the first selective CDK8/19 inhibitors, retiring in 2026 as professor emeritus at the University of South Carolina.

Igor F. Palacios

Igor F. Palacios is a Venezuelan-born interventional cardiologist who led interventional cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and performed the first mitral balloon valvuloplasty in the United States.

Igor J. Koralnik

Igor J. Koralnik is a neurologist who is chief of Neuro-infectious Disease and Global Neurology at Northwestern University, known for discovering new JC virus brain diseases.

Igor Rudan

Igor Rudan is a Croatian physician-scientist, Professor of International Health and Molecular Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, known for the CHNRI method of setting health research priorities.

Iichiro Shimomura

Iichiro Shimomura (下村 伊一郎) is a Japanese physician-scientist, professor of endocrinology and metabolism at The University of Osaka since 2004, whose department discovered the hormone adiponectin and helped establish the metabolic syndrome concept.

Ikuo Hirano

Ikuo Hirano was an American gastroenterologist and professor of medicine at Northwestern University who helped define eosinophilic esophagitis, chaired its major clinical guidelines, and died in 2024.

Ikuo Nishimoto

Ikuo Nishimoto (西本 征央, 1956–2003) was a Japanese neurology researcher and pharmacology professor at Keio University whose work on Alzheimer's disease led to the discovery of Humanin.

Ilan R. Kirsch

Ilan R. Kirsch is a physician and cancer genetics researcher known for work on aberrant V(D)J recombination in lymphoid leukemia and for immunosequencing at Adaptive Biotechnologies.

Ildiko Lingvay

Ildiko Lingvay is a Romanian-born endocrinologist and professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for arguing that weight loss, not glucose control alone, should be the primary goal in type 2 diabetes.

INDER J. CHOPRA

Inder J. Chopra (Inder Jit Chopra) is an endocrinologist, diabetes, and metabolism specialist at UCLA known for developing radioimmunoassays for thyroid hormones and their metabolites.

Inder S. Anand

Inder S. Anand, also published as Inder Anand, is an Indian-born cardiologist who directed the heart failure program at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center and described adult subacute mountain sickness.

Inga Zerr

Inga Zerr is a German neurologist at the University Medical Center Göttingen who leads the National Reference Center for Human Prion Diseases and the Clinical Dementia Center.

Inge Edler

Inge Edler was a Swedish cardiologist who, with the physicist Hellmuth Hertz, recorded the first moving ultrasound echoes from the human heart in Lund, Sweden, in 1953, founding echocardiography.

Ingegerd Hellström

Ingegerd Hellström is a Swedish-born tumor immunologist and physician-scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle whose laboratory identified the protein mesothelin, now the basis of mesothelioma blood tests.

Ingmar Blümcke

Ingmar Blümcke, born 1965, is a German neuropathologist and professor at Erlangen known for leading the ILAE classifications of focal cortical dysplasia and hippocampal sclerosis.

Ingmar Hoerr

Ingmar Hoerr, born 1968, is a German biologist and entrepreneur who showed injected mRNA can trigger immune responses and co-founded CureVac in Tübingen in 2000.

Ingo K. Mellinghoff

Ingo K. Mellinghoff is a German-trained neuro-oncologist who has chaired the Department of Neurology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center since 2020, known for developing targeted therapies for IDH-mutant glioma.

Ingrid E. Scheffer

Ingrid E. Scheffer, also known as Ingrid Scheffer, is an Australian pediatric neurologist and epileptologist who helped identify the first epilepsy gene in 1995 and led the 2017 revision of the international classification of the epilepsies.