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Laura M. Gottlieb

Laura M. Gottlieb is an American family physician and researcher, Professor of Family and Community Medicine at UCSF, founding director of SIREN, and a 2019 National Academy of Medicine member.

Laura Manuelidis

Laura Manuelidis is an American physician and neuropathologist at Yale School of Medicine known for transmitting CJD to mice in 1978 and arguing the TSE agent is a virus.

Laura Mauri

Laura Mauri (L. Mauri) is an interventional cardiologist and clinical-trials researcher who led the DAPT Study and EVEREST II and is Medtronic's Chief Scientific and Medical Officer.

Laura Pasqualucci

Laura Pasqualucci is an Italian cancer geneticist who identified KMT2D and CREBBP as tumor suppressors in B cell lymphomas, and directs a Lymphomagenesis Laboratory in Bellinzona, Switzerland.

Lauren Bailey Zapata

Lauren B. Zapata is an American CDC epidemiologist in Atlanta who co-authors the U.S. MEC and SPR contraceptive guidance and received a 2011 PECASE award.

Laurence A. Harker

Laurence A. Harker (1932–2020) was a Canadian-born American hematologist and physician-scientist who worked on platelet function and thrombosis, best known for his 1972 NEJM study standardizing the template bleeding time.

Laurence B. Ellis

Laurence B. Ellis was an American cardiologist at Boston City Hospital and Harvard Medical School who directed the follow-up of the closed mitral valvuloplasty series from 1948 to 1973.

Laurence de Leval

Laurence de Leval, born 1970, is a Belgian hematopathologist and professor at the University of Lausanne, known for identifying the follicular helper T-cell origin of angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma.

Laurence H. Hurley

Laurence H. Hurley (born 1944) is an English-born medicinal chemist known for designing cancer drugs targeting DNA, especially G-quadruplexes, and is professor emeritus at the University of Arizona.

Laurence H. Kyle

Laurence H. Kyle was an American endocrinologist at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., known for studies of thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal disease and body composition.

Laurence J. Miller

Laurence J. Miller is an American gastroenterologist and molecular pharmacologist at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, known for work on cholecystokinin and secretin receptors, including a 2020 cryo-EM structure of secretin bound to its receptor.

Laurence L. Robbins

Laurence L. Robbins was an American radiologist who led Massachusetts General Hospital's radiology department from 1946, taught at Harvard, and presided over the Radiological Society of North America in 1959.

Laurence Zitvogel

Laurence Zitvogel is a French clinical oncologist and immunologist, professor at Université Paris-Saclay, known for immunogenic cell death and how gut microbiota shape cancer immunotherapy response.

Laurent Abel

Laurent Abel is a French physician-scientist at Inserm who heads the Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases in Paris and New York, identifying genetic causes of severe tuberculosis and COVID-19.

Laurent Brochard

Laurent Brochard, born 1957, is a French-Canadian intensivist and researcher whose work on mechanical ventilation and ARDS shaped intensive care, including a landmark 1995 NEJM trial of noninvasive ventilation.

Laurent Castéra

Laurent Castéra is a French hepatologist, professor of hepatology at Université Paris Cité and Hôpital Beaujon in Clichy, who led EASL and pioneered noninvasive liver fibrosis testing.

Laurent Papazian

Laurent Papazian (born 1959) is a French intensivist known for the 2010 ACURASYS trial of neuromuscular blockade in ARDS; after nearly 40 years in Marseille, he works in Bastia, Corsica.

Laurent Peyrin‐Biroulet

Laurent Peyrin-Biroulet is a French professor of gastroenterology at Nancy University Hospital who served as President of the European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation from 2020 to 2023.

Lauri A. Aaltonen

Lauri A. Aaltonen is a Finnish physician-scientist, Professor of Tumor Genomics at the University of Helsinki, known for establishing the molecular basis of hereditary colorectal cancer.

Lauri E. Markowitz

Lauri E. Markowitz is an American physician and epidemiologist who joined the CDC in 1983, studied measles outbreaks, and led HPV vaccine surveillance showing large infection declines.

Laurie Goodyear

Laurie J. Goodyear is a metabolism researcher who heads Integrative Physiology and Metabolism at Joslin Diabetes Center and is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Laurie H. Sehn

Laurie H. Sehn is a Canadian medical oncologist and lymphoma researcher in Vancouver who developed the revised International Prognostic Index and led trials of new lymphoma treatments.

Laurie J. Morrison

Laurie J. Morrison is a Canadian emergency physician and resuscitation scientist at the University of Toronto and Sunnybrook, known for research on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and resuscitation guidelines.

Lawrence A. Frohman

Lawrence A. Frohman (1935–2018) was an American neuroendocrinologist who defined hypothalamic control of growth hormone, isolated GHRH, and chaired medicine at the University of Illinois.

Lawrence F. Brass

Lawrence F. Brass, known as Skip Brass, is an American hematologist and Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania since 1982, studying platelets, hemostasis, and thrombosis.

Lawrence Fong

Lawrence Fong is a physician-scientist in cancer immunotherapy who treats prostate, bladder, and kidney cancers and directs the Immunotherapy Integrated Research Center at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, after founding UCSF's Cancer Immunotherapy Program.

Lawrence G. Raisz

Lawrence G. Raisz was an American physician-scientist in bone and mineral metabolism, a founder of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research and first editor of its journal.

Lawrence H. Cohn

Lawrence H. Cohn (1937–2016) was an American cardiac surgeon and Harvard professor who led cardiac surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital and performed more than 11,000 operations.

Lawrence H. Einhorn

Lawrence H. Einhorn is an American medical oncologist at the Indiana University School of Medicine who developed the cisplatin-based chemotherapy regimens that made metastatic testicular cancer highly curable.

Lawrence J. Appel

Lawrence J. Appel is an American physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins University whose research on diet and behavior treats hypertension, kidney disease, and obesity; he led the landmark 1997 DASH trial.