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Lawrence J. Kunz
Lawrence J. Kunz was an American clinical microbiologist who led Massachusetts General Hospital's clinical microbiology laboratory in Boston from 1952 to 1982, known for NEJM papers on Pasteurella and streptococcal infections.
Lawrence J. Marnett
Lawrence J. Marnett is an American pharmacologist and biochemist at Vanderbilt University whose research defined how normal metabolism damages DNA and how COX-2 is targeted by aspirin-like drugs.
Lawrence Kazak
Lawrence Kazak is a Canadian researcher at McGill University's Goodman Cancer Institute who studies how fat cells generate heat, known for identifying a creatine-driven heat-producing pathway in thermogenic fat.
Lawrence Levine
Lawrence Levine (1924–2009) was an American biochemist and educator at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, best known for showing that anti-inflammatory corticosteroids inhibit prostaglandin production.
Lawrence M. Lichtenstein
Lawrence M. Lichtenstein (1934–2022) was an American immunologist and allergist at Johns Hopkins University whose 1978 trial made venom immunotherapy the standard of care for insect-sting allergy.
Lawrence M. Weiss
Lawrence M. Weiss, also published as Lawrence Weiss, is an American hematopathologist and Chairman of Pathology Emeritus at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California.
Lawrence O. Gostin
Lawrence O. Gostin, born 1949, is an American legal scholar at Georgetown University who founded the O'Neill Institute and shaped health law through major epidemics.
Lawrence R. Schiller
Lawrence R. Schiller is an American gastroenterologist in Dallas known for research on intestinal transport, chronic diarrhea, and motility, and was ACG president in 2011–2012.
Lawrence S. Friedman
Lawrence S. Friedman is an American hepatologist and gastroenterologist who chairs the Department of Medicine at Newton-Wellesley Hospital and is a professor at Harvard Medical School.
Lawrence Steinman
Lawrence Steinman is a neurologist at Stanford University whose multiple sclerosis research produced the approved therapy natalizumab, and who was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.
Lawrence T. Goodnough
Lawrence Tim Goodnough is an American hematologist and transfusion medicine specialist, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, known for defining Patient Blood Management and reducing blood use through restrictive transfusion practice.
Lawrence Zukerberg
Lawrence R. Zukerberg (1959–2022) was an American pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital whose work established cyclin D1 as a diagnostic marker of mantle cell lymphoma.
Lawrie W. Powell
Lawrie W. Powell (1934–2022) was an Australian hepatologist internationally recognized for his work on hemochromatosis, the iron-storage disorder, and called the Father of Australian Hepatology.
Leaf Huang
Leaf Huang, born in China in 1946, is a drug delivery and nanomedicine researcher who first published PEG's prolongation of liposome circulation time and pioneered non-viral gene vectors.
Lecia V. Sequist
Lecia V. Sequist is an American medical oncologist and lung cancer researcher who is a professor at Harvard Medical School and practices at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Lee Goldman
Lee Goldman is an American cardiologist and Dean Emeritus at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, known for the Goldman Index, the Goldman Criteria, and the Coronary Heart Disease Policy Model.
Lee H. Schwamm
Lee H. Schwamm, also known as Lee Schwamm, is an American vascular neurologist and telehealth researcher known for building large-scale telestroke networks and national stroke quality-improvement programs.
Lee M. Eaton
Lee M. Eaton, born Lealdes McKendree Eaton (1905–1958), was an American Mayo Clinic neurologist who headed its neurology section and co-described Lambert–Eaton myasthenic syndrome with Edward H. Lambert in 1957.
Lee M. Ellis
Lee M. Ellis is an American surgical oncologist and cancer researcher at MD Anderson known for angiogenesis research in colorectal cancer and a 2012 Nature commentary on reproducibility.
Lee M. Kaplan
Lee M. Kaplan is an American physician-scientist in obesity medicine who founded Massachusetts General Hospital's Weight Center and was 2019–2020 president of The Obesity Society.
Lee M. Nadler
Lee M. Nadler, also known as Lee Nadler, is an American physician-scientist in cancer immunology at Dana-Farber and Harvard Medical School whose laboratory discovered CD19 and CD20, leading to Rituxan.
Lee S. Newman
Lee S. Newman is an American occupational and environmental medicine physician and distinguished professor at the University of Colorado, best known for developing the diagnostic test for chronic beryllium disease.
Lee S. Weinstein
Lee S. Weinstein, also known as Lee Weinstein, is an American physician-scientist at NIH's NIDDK known for work on G protein genetics, genomic imprinting, and metabolic disease.
Lee W. Jones
Lee W. Jones is a Canadian-born exercise oncology researcher who quantified how chemotherapy degrades fitness and ran randomized trials of prescribed exercise therapy at Duke and Memorial Sloan Kettering.
Leena Peltonen-Palotie
Leena Peltonen-Palotie, known as Leena Peltonen, was a Finnish geneticist who identified genes behind the Finnish disease heritage and led human genetics at the Sanger Institute.
Lei Ding
Lei Ding is a stem cell biologist and professor at Columbia University Medical Center since 2013, known for identifying the bone marrow cells that maintain hematopoietic stem cells.
Leif Groop
Leif Groop, born in Finland in 1947, is a Finnish physician-scientist and professor emeritus at Lund University known for describing LADA and classifying adult-onset diabetes into five subtypes.
Leif Svensson
Leif Svensson is a Swedish cardiologist and resuscitation researcher who founded the Center for Cardiac Arrest Research at Karolinska Institutet and conceived the SMS lifesaver app.
Leigh H. Simmons
Leigh H. Simmons is an American internal medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital who directs its Health Decision Sciences Center and studies shared decision making.
Leland Hartwell
Leland Hartwell is an American cell-cycle geneticist who won the 2001 Nobel Prize for identifying genes controlling cell division in yeast and introducing the checkpoint concept.