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Lelio Orci
Lelio Orci (1937–2019) was an Italian-born cell biologist and endocrinologist at the University of Geneva, known for electron-microscopy studies of the islets of Langerhans and discovery of the COPI coat complex.
Lena Carlsson
Lena Carlsson is a Swedish physician-scientist and professor of clinical metabolic research at the University of Gothenburg who has led the Swedish Obese Subjects bariatric surgery study since 2005.
Lenore J. Launer
Lenore J. Launer is an epidemiologist who led neuroepidemiology research at the National Institute on Aging, known for studies linking midlife blood pressure and diabetes to dementia.
Leo E. Hollister
Leo E. Hollister (1920–2000) was an American clinical pharmacologist at the VA Hospital in Palo Alto who led early controlled trials of antidepressants and antipsychotics.
Leo George Rigler
Leo George Rigler (1896–1979) was an American academic radiologist who chaired radiology at the University of Minnesota for 24 years, built diagnostic radiology at UCLA, and described Rigler's sign of pneumoperitoneum.
Leo James
Leo C. James is a British molecular biologist and virologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, known for discovering TRIM21 and intracellular antibody immunity.
Leo Kanner
Leo Kanner (1894–1981), Austrian-born American psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins; founded US academic child psychiatry, wrote the first English textbook Child Psychiatry (1935), and described early infantile autism in 1943.
Leo Loeb
Leo Loeb (1869–1959) was a German-born American pathologist who pioneered experimental cancer research in the United States, showing that hormones could bring about cancerous transformation.
Leo Sachs
Leo Sachs (Hebrew: לאו זקס; 1924–2013) was a German-born Israeli molecular biologist who founded the Department of Genetics at the Weizmann Institute and discovered colony-stimulating factors.
Léon Binet
Léon Binet was a French physician and physiologist who held the chair of physiology at the Paris Faculté de médecine and served 17 years as its dean.
Leon Eisenberg
Leon Eisenberg (1922–2009) was an American child psychiatrist who moved the field from psychoanalysis to empirical trials, running the first studies of Ritalin in overactive children at Johns Hopkins and Harvard.
LEON HELLMAN
Leon Hellman was an American endocrinology researcher at Sloan-Kettering and Montefiore Hospital who showed that cortisol is secreted episodically and that luteinizing hormone secretion synchronizes with sleep during puberty.
Leon I. Goldberg
Leon I. Goldberg (1927–1989) was a cardiovascular pharmacologist and physician at Emory University who introduced dopamine for shock and congestive heart failure and characterized peripheral dopamine receptors.
Leon Orris Jacobson
Leon Orris Jacobson (1911–1992) was an American hematologist at the University of Chicago whose 1943 nitrogen mustard trials were among the first forms of chemotherapy.
Leonard B. Saltz
Leonard B. Saltz, also known as Leonard Saltz, is an American medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering who specializes in gastrointestinal cancers, especially colorectal cancer.
Leonard B. Seeff
Leonard B. Seeff is a South African-born American physician-scientist in hepatology known for defining the natural history of transfusion-associated hepatitis C through decades of VA cohort follow-up.
Leonard D. Hudson
Leonard D. Hudson, born 1938, is an American pulmonary and critical care physician at the University of Washington and Harborview in Seattle, known for research on ARDS.
Leonard D. Kohn
Leonard D. Kohn (1935–2012) was an American thyroid researcher who led a section at the NIH for 25 years, developed the FRTL-5 bioassay, and won the Ingbar Award.
Leonard Guarente
Leonard Guarente is an American molecular biologist and aging researcher, the Novartis Professor of Biology at MIT known for showing that sirtuins regulate aging through NAD, and a founder of Elysium Health.
Leonard H. van den Berg
Leonard H. van den Berg (Leonard Hendrik van den Berg, born 1963) is a Dutch neurologist and professor of experimental neurology at UMC Utrecht, known for ALS research and Project MinE.
Leonard Herzenberg
Leonard Herzenberg (1931–2013) was an American immunologist and geneticist at Stanford University who led the development of the fluorescence-activated cell sorter, winning the 2006 Kyoto Prize.
Leonard J. Deftos
Leonard J. Deftos is an American endocrinologist and oncologist at the University of California, San Diego, known for establishing chromogranin A and calcitonin as blood markers of neuroendocrine tumors.
Leonard Laster
Leonard Laster (1928–2020) was an American physician and biomedical researcher in gastroenterology and metabolic disease, known for celiac disease research and establishing the biochemical basis of alkaptonuria.
Leonard Petrucelli
Leonard Petrucelli is an American neuroscientist known for research on TDP-43 and the C9orf72 mutation in ALS and frontotemporal dementia, and founding director of the University of Miami's Neuroscience Institute.
Leonard Rogers
Sir Leonard Rogers (1868–1962) was a British parasitologist and tropical physician in the Indian Medical Service who introduced emetine for amoebic dysentery and antimony for kala-azar.
Leonard T. Kurland
Leonard T. Kurland (1921–2001) was an American physician and epidemiologist at the Mayo Clinic who founded neuroepidemiology and created the Rochester Epidemiology Project, a records-linkage system covering Olmsted County, Minnesota.
Leonardo Bianchi
Leonardo Bianchi (1848–1927) was an Italian neurologist and psychiatrist who founded the Psychiatric Institute of Naples, established experimental research on the frontal lobes, and served as the first president of the Italian Society of Neurology.
Leonardo M. Fabbri
Leonardo M. Fabbri is an Italian respiratory physician, Eminent Scholar at the University of Ferrara, who established COPD's inflammatory character and helped found the GOLD guidelines.
Leonhard Koeppe
Leonhard Koeppe (1884–1969) was a German ophthalmologist born in Torgau who died in Halle, best known for his 1919 direct-view contact lens for examining the eye's drainage angle.
Leontine Alkema
Leontine Alkema is a Dutch biostatistician and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who develops Bayesian models used by UN agencies to estimate stillbirths and maternal mortality worldwide.