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Leopold Freund
Leopold Freund was an Austrian radiologist who performed the first documented scientific therapeutic use of X-rays in Vienna in 1896, treating a girl's hairy birthmark and founding radiotherapy.
Leopold Schönbauer
Leopold Schönbauer (1888–1963) was an Austrian surgeon regarded as the founder of neurosurgery in Austria, director of Vienna General Hospital, and rector of the University of Vienna.
Leor Weinberger
Leor Weinberger is an American virologist at the Gladstone Institutes and UCSF who created therapeutic interfering particles, engineered viral parasites that spread like the virus they treat.
Leroy D. Vandam
Leroy D. Vandam (1914–2004) was an American anesthesiologist who led anesthesia at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital from 1954 to 1979 and published over 250 papers.
Leroy F. Liu
Leroy F. Liu (劉昉) is a molecular pharmacologist who established DNA topoisomerases as targets of antitumor drugs, working at Johns Hopkins, Rutgers, and Taipei Medical University.
Leroy Shear
Leroy Shear was an American physician-scientist who studied ascites and kidney problems in liver cirrhosis, publishing influential papers in the New England Journal of Medicine between 1965 and 1970.
Leslee J. Shaw
Leslee J. Shaw is an American cardiac imaging researcher at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for work on ischemic heart disease and sex differences.
Lesley A. Inker
Lesley A. Inker is a Canadian-trained nephrologist and Professor of Medicine at Tufts University in Boston who directs CKD-EPI and led the 2021 race-free kidney function equations.
Lesley Seymour
Lesley Seymour is a Canadian medical oncologist who directs the Canadian Cancer Trials Group's Investigational New Drug Program in Kingston, Ontario, specializing in lung cancer.
Lesley Stewart
Lesley A. Stewart is a medical researcher and Professor of Evidence Synthesis at the University of York, known for pioneering individual participant data meta-analysis of clinical trials.
Leslie A. Leinwand
Leslie A. Leinwand is an American molecular biologist at the University of Colorado Boulder known for her 2011 discovery that python fatty acids drive heart growth.
Leslie G. Biesecker
Leslie G. Biesecker is an American clinical and molecular geneticist who leads precision health research at the NIH and delineated rare overgrowth syndromes like Proteus syndrome.
Leslie H. Blumgart
Leslie H. Blumgart (1931–2022) was a South African-born hepatobiliary surgeon who held the St Mungo professorship at Glasgow and built the hepatobiliary service at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York.
Leslie J. De Groot
Leslie J. De Groot (1928–2018) was an American endocrinologist who led the University of Chicago's Thyroid Study Unit and was counted among the founders of modern thyroidology.
Leslie J. Schoenfield
Leslie J. Schoenfield (1932–2003) was an American gastroenterologist who pioneered the medical dissolution of gallstones, directing gastroenterology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from 1970 to 2001.
Leslie L. Robison
Leslie L. Robison is an American cancer epidemiologist who chaired the Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis and led the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.
Leslie P. Weiner
Leslie P. Weiner, also cited as L. P. Weiner, is a retired American neurologist and virologist who identified the JC papovavirus as the cause of PML.
Leslie S. Ritter
Leslie S. Ritter is an American nurse scientist and stroke researcher, Professor Emerita at the University of Arizona and director of the Stroke Resource Center of Southern Arizona.
Leslie T. Cooper
Leslie T. Cooper is an American cardiologist who chairs cardiovascular medicine at Mayo Clinic in Florida and is known for defining the natural history and immunosuppressive treatment of myocarditis.
Lester Dragstedt
Lester Dragstedt (1893–1975) was an American surgeon and physiologist at the University of Chicago who reintroduced vagotomy as a treatment for duodenal ulcer in 1943.
Lewis A. Chodosh
Lewis A. Chodosh is an American physician-scientist and breast cancer researcher who chairs the Department of Cancer Biology at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine.
Lewis B. Holmes
Lewis B. Holmes is an American pediatrician and dysmorphologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for birth-defects surveillance and directing the North American AED Pregnancy Registry.
Lewis C. Becker
Lewis C. Becker is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist, a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine who co-founded the GeneSTAR family heart study in 1982 and led research on platelet genetics.
Lewis C. Cantley
Lewis C. Cantley, born 1949, is an American biochemist known for discovering PI3K, a signaling enzyme central to cancer and diabetes, and for cancer metabolism research.
Lewis Dexter
Lewis Dexter (1910–1995) was an American cardiologist at Harvard Medical School and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital who first catheterized the pulmonary artery, in 1944, defining hemodynamics of congenital heart disease.
Lewis E. Braverman
Lewis E. Braverman (1929–2019) was an American endocrinologist and thyroid researcher at Boston University School of Medicine who demonstrated in 1970 that thyroxine is converted to triiodothyronine in humans.
Lewis J. Rubin
Lewis J. Rubin is an American pulmonologist and Emeritus Professor at UC San Diego whose trials brought prostacyclin therapy, first epoprostenol, into routine use for pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Lewis K. Dahl
Lewis K. Dahl was an American internist and hypertension researcher at Brookhaven National Laboratory who demonstrated that dietary salt raises blood pressure and that susceptibility depends on genetic background.
Lewis Landsberg
Lewis Landsberg (1938–2021) was an American physician-scientist in endocrinology and metabolism whose research showed that diet regulates the sympathetic nervous system, linking obesity to high blood pressure.
Lewis P. Rowland
Lewis P. Rowland (1925–2017) was an American neurologist who chaired neurology at Columbia University for 25 years, edited Merritt's Textbook of Neurology, and led ALS research and clinical trials.