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Lance D. Dworkin
Lance D. Dworkin is an American nephrologist, Mercy Professor and Chair of Medicine at the University of Toledo since 2016, known for the CORAL trial.
Larry E. Kun
Larry E. Kun (1946–2018) was an American pediatric radiation oncologist who built St. Jude's brain tumor program and led trials delaying radiation for young children.
Larry J. Young
Larry J. Young (1967–2024) was an American social neuroscientist at Emory University, known for prairie vole research showing how oxytocin and vasopressin regulate social bonding.
Larry M. Baddour
Larry M. Baddour is an American infectious-diseases physician, professor emeritus of medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for research on infective endocarditis and device infections.
Larry Norton
Larry Norton is an American medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, known for the Norton–Simon model of tumor growth, dose-dense chemotherapy, and HER2-directed breast cancer therapy.
Larry W. Kwak
Larry W. Kwak is an American hematologist-oncologist and cancer vaccine researcher who developed one of the first personalized therapeutic cancer vaccines, for B-cell lymphoma, and was named to the TIME 100 in 2010.
Lars Å. Hanson
Lars Å. Hanson, born Lars-Åke Hanson (1934–2022), was a Swedish pediatrician and immunologist at Gothenburg who reported IgA in breast milk and showed breastfeeding protects infants against infection.
Lars Bertram
Lars Bertram is a German physician-scientist who studies Alzheimer's disease genetics, known for the AlzGene database and a professor of genome analytics at the University of Lübeck.
Lars Fugger
Lars Fugger, born in 1960, is a Danish physician-scientist and Professor of Neuroimmunology at Oxford, known for a humanized transgenic mouse model of multiple sclerosis.
Lars Holmberg
Lars Holmberg is a Swedish cancer epidemiologist and oncology researcher, Professor Emeritus at King's College London and Uppsala University, best known for the SPCG-4 trial of prostatectomy versus watchful waiting.
Lars Klareskog
Lars Klareskog, born 1945, is a Swedish rheumatology researcher at Karolinska Institutet who showed how smoking and HLA-DR genes trigger immunity to citrullinated proteins in rheumatoid arthritis, and led the 2004 TEMPO trial.
Lars Køber
Lars Køber is a Danish cardiologist, Clinical Professor at the University of Copenhagen and based at Rigshospitalet, known for leading the landmark heart failure trials TRACE and DANISH.
Lars Lindholm
Lars Lindholm, also known as Lars H Lindholm, is a Swedish hypertension researcher and professor of general practice at Umeå University whose 2005 meta-analysis questioned beta blockers.
Lars Sjöström
Lars Sjöström is a Swedish physician-scientist, professor emeritus at the Sahlgrenska Academy in Gothenburg, who founded the Swedish Obese Subjects (SOS) study in 1987, the first long-term controlled trial of bariatric surgery.
Lars Søndergaard
Lars Søndergaard is a Danish interventional cardiologist and professor of cardiology at the University of Copenhagen who heads structural heart intervention at Rigshospitalet and led the NOTION and REDUCE trials.
Lars Terenius
Lars Terenius is a Swedish pharmacologist who in 1973 was among the first to demonstrate opiate receptors in the brain, winning the 1978 Canada Gairdner International Award.
Lars Wallentin
Lars Wallentin is a Swedish cardiologist and professor emeritus at Uppsala University who led pivotal trials of antiplatelet and anticoagulant drugs, including PLATO and ARISTOTLE, and built the SWEDEHEART registry.
Lars Wilhelmsen
Lars Wilhelmsen (L. Wilhelmsen) was a Swedish cardiologist and epidemiologist at Sahlgrenska University Hospital who co-started the Men born in 1913 study and directed the Göteborg Multifactor Primary Prevention Trial.
Lars Zender
Lars Zender (born 1975 in Hanover) is a German medical oncologist at University Hospital Tübingen known for in vivo RNAi screens in living mouse livers and for first-in-class MKK4 inhibitor drugs.
Lary C. Walker
Lary C. Walker is a neuroscientist and neuropathologist at Emory University in Atlanta known for establishing that amyloid-beta, the protein of Alzheimer's plaques, spreads by prion-like seeding.
Laszlo Lorand
Laszlo Lorand (1923–2018) was a Hungarian-born American biochemist who co-discovered the blood-clotting protein Factor XIII, formerly called the Laki-Lorand factor, and spent more than 60 years at Northwestern University.
Lauder Brunton
Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton, first baronet (1844–1916), was a Scottish-born physician and pharmacologist who first reported amyl nitrite relieving angina pectoris in 1867 and wrote the first comprehensive pharmacology textbook.
Laura A. Koutsky
Laura A. Koutsky is an American epidemiologist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, known for HPV research and as principal investigator of the first HPV vaccine trials.
Laura A. Magee
Laura A. Magee is a Canadian-trained internist and Professor of Women's Health at King's College London, known for leading the CHIPS pregnancy blood pressure trial.
Laura A. Petersen
Laura A. Petersen is an American physician and health services researcher who leads the IQuESt center at Baylor College of Medicine and the DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston.
Laura D. Attardi
Laura D. Attardi is an American cancer geneticist at Stanford University who studies the p53 tumor suppressor and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Laura Dwyer‐Lindgren
Laura Dwyer-Lindgren is a health metrics researcher at the University of Washington's IHME who studies US disease burden and life expectancy disparities, known for the 2024 Ten Americas analysis.
Laura J. Esserman
Laura J. Esserman is an American surgeon and breast cancer researcher at UCSF who has directed its Breast Care Center since 1996 and leads the I-SPY 2 trial.
Laura L. Bellows
Laura L. Bellows is an American nutrition scientist who studies how eating habits and activity develop in early childhood, and received a Presidential Early Career Award in 2011.
Laura M. Dember
Laura M. Dember, also cited as Laura Dember, is an American nephrologist at the University of Pennsylvania known for clinical trials in AA amyloidosis and dialysis access.