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Lewis Thomas
Lewis Thomas (1913–1993) was an American physician, immunologist, and essayist who led the NYU and Yale medical schools and wrote The Lives of a Cell.
Li Ding
Li Ding, also known as Ding Li, is a Chinese American computational biologist and cancer genomicist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Li Gan
Li Gan is a neuroscientist directing the Helen and Robert Appel Alzheimer's Disease Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine since 2018, known for work on tau acetylation.
Liam Smeeth
Liam Smeeth is a British clinical epidemiologist who became Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in 2021 and practises as an NHS GP.
Liangyou Rui
Liangyou Rui is a molecular physiologist at the University of Michigan Medical School known for research on SH2B1 and NIK signaling in obesity, diabetes, and fatty liver disease.
Lida P. Hariri
Lida P. Hariri is an American pulmonary pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who develops endobronchial optical coherence tomography for imaging lung disease.
Lieping Chen
Lieping Chen (陈列平) is a Yale immunologist whose laboratory discovered PD-L1 (B7-H1) in 1999 and showed the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway lets tumors evade immune attack, founding cancer immunotherapy.
Lihong Wang
Lihong V. Wang is a Chinese-American biomedical optics researcher who developed photoacoustic tomography and compressed ultrafast photography, and has been a Bren Professor at Caltech since 2017.
Lili Yang
Lili Yang is an immunologist and professor of microbiology, immunology, and molecular genetics at UCLA who trained under David Baltimore at Caltech and develops off-the-shelf CAR-NKT cell cancer immunotherapies from engineered blood stem cells.
Lillian Siu
Lillian L. Siu is a Canadian medical oncologist at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and the University of Toronto, known for early-phase anticancer drug trials and cancer genomics.
Lin-Fa Wang
Lin-Fa Wang (王林发) is a Singapore-based virologist at Duke-NUS Medical School known for identifying bats as the SARS virus's natural host and for bat immunology research.
Lincoln Chen
Lincoln Chen is an American public-health physician known for research on the global shortage of health workers, and President of the China Medical Board from 2006 to 2020.
Linda Birnbaum
Linda Birnbaum is an American toxicologist known for research on dioxins and endocrine-disrupting chemicals who led NIEHS and the National Toxicology Program from 2009 to 2019.
Linda C. Cork
Linda C. Cork is a veterinary pathologist and comparative medicine researcher who chaired Stanford's Department of Comparative Medicine from 1994 to 2009, elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1988.
Linda Ganzini
Linda Ganzini is an American psychiatrist and health services researcher at Oregon Health & Science University known for survey studies of the Oregon Death with Dignity Act.
Linda L. Emanuel
Linda L. Emanuel is an American physician, medical ethicist, and psychoanalyst at Northwestern University known for research on advance directives and founding the EPEC program.
Linda P. Fried
Linda P. Fried is an American geriatrician and population scientist who defined frailty as a clinical syndrome and co-founded Experience Corps, and was dean of Columbia Mailman School of Public Health.
Linda-Gail Bekker
Linda-Gail Bekker is a South African physician-scientist at the University of Cape Town who directs the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre and led the PURPOSE 1 lenacapavir trial.
Lindsay A. Farrer
Lindsay A. Farrer, also known as Lindsay Farrer, is an American genetic epidemiologist at Boston University known for research on the genetics of Alzheimer's disease, especially the APOE gene.
Lindsay E. Nicolle
Lindsay E. Nicolle is a Canadian infectious diseases physician at the University of Manitoba whose research established that asymptomatic bacteriuria in the elderly should not be treated.
Lindsey A. George
Lindsey A. George, also known as Lindsey George, is a physician-scientist directing the gene therapy program at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, known for hemophilia A and B trials.
Lindsey R. Baden
Lindsey R. Baden is an American infectious disease physician-scientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and a deputy editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.
Linghua Wang
Linghua Wang is a physician-scientist and computational biologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center known for a pan-cancer T cell atlas linking T cell stress responses to immunotherapy resistance.
Lionel B. Ivashkiv
Lionel B. Ivashkiv is an American physician-scientist and rheumatologist who studies cytokine signaling and macrophage biology, and is Chief Scientific Officer at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York.
Lionel Fry
Lionel Fry (1933–2021) was a British dermatologist, consultant at St Mary's Hospital, London from 1969, who established dermatitis herpetiformis as gluten sensitivity and showed psoriasis is immune-mediated.
Lionel H. Opie
Lionel H. Opie (L. H. Opie) was a South African cardiologist at the University of Cape Town who showed how beta-blockers protect the heart during a heart attack.
Lionel Whitby
Sir Lionel Ernest Howard Whitby (1895–1956) was a British haematologist who identified sulphapyridine as effective against pneumonia and commanded the British Army's Blood Transfusion Service during World War II.
Lipika Goyal
Lipika Goyal is an American medical oncologist who directs the Gastrointestinal Oncology program at the Stanford Cancer Institute, known for leading the 2023 futibatinib trial in bile duct cancer.
Lisa A. Jackson
Lisa A. Jackson, also known as Lisa Jackson, is an American vaccine epidemiologist at Kaiser Permanente Washington who led the first COVID-19 vaccine trial in March 2020.
Lisa Ann Newman
Lisa Ann Newman is an American breast surgical oncologist and health disparities researcher, Chief of the Section of Breast Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023.