edgepedia

Medical and health researchers

8,517 articles

Lisa Hope Harris

Lisa Hope Harris is an American physician-researcher at the University of Michigan who studies abortion-provider stigma and reproductive health policy, testified against Michigan's 1931 abortion ban in 2022, and is a National Academy of Medicine member.

Lisa Licitra

Lisa Licitra is an Italian medical oncologist who heads head and neck cancer medical oncology at Milan's Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori and led the BERIL-1 trial.

Lisa M. Coussens

Lisa M. Coussens is an American cancer biologist, chair of cell and cancer biology at Oregon Health & Science University, known for linking chronic inflammation to cancer progression.

Lisa M. DeAngelis

Lisa M. DeAngelis is an American neuro-oncologist who spent nearly 40 years at Memorial Sloan Kettering, chairing its neurology department and co-founding its Brain Tumor Center.

Lisa Monteggia

Lisa M. Monteggia is a neuroscientist studying the molecular mechanisms of depression and rapid-acting antidepressants, and she directs the Vanderbilt Brain Institute as Barlow Family Director.

Lisa Mosconi

Lisa Mosconi is an Italian-born neuroscientist at Weill Cornell Medicine who directs its Alzheimer's Prevention Program and studies women's brain health and menopause through brain imaging.

Lisa Soleymani Lehmann

Lisa Soleymani Lehmann, also published as Lisa S. Lehmann, is an American physician and bioethicist at Harvard Medical School who led ethics programs for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Liverij Osipovich Darkshevich

Liverij Osipovich Darkshevich (Ливерий Осипович Даркшевич, 1858–1925) was a Russian neurologist who identified the midbrain's nucleus of Darkshevich and founded the Kazan school of neurology.

Lloyd M. Aiello

Lloyd M. Aiello was an American ophthalmologist, Harvard Medical School professor, and founding director of the Beetham Eye Institute who pioneered laser photocoagulation for diabetic retinopathy.

Lloyd W. Law

Lloyd W. Law (1910–2002) was an American immunologist and cancer researcher at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, whose mouse leukemia studies laid the foundation for combination chemotherapy.

Lois B. Travis

Lois B. Travis is a physician and cancer epidemiologist at the Indiana University Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center, known for research on second cancers in testicular cancer survivors.

Lois K. Lee

Lois K. Lee is a pediatric emergency medicine physician-researcher at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023 for firearm-injury research.

Loren G. Miller

Loren G. Miller is an American infectious-diseases physician-researcher, Professor of Medicine at UCLA and Chief of Adult Infectious Diseases at Harbor-UCLA, known for MRSA decolonization trials.

Loren J. Field

Loren J. Field is an American molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Indiana University School of Medicine, known for research on regenerative growth of the heart.

Loren Laine

Loren Laine is an American gastroenterologist, professor of medicine and chief of digestive diseases at Yale School of Medicine, and 2012–2013 president of the American Gastroenterological Association.

Lorenz von Seidlein

Lorenz von Seidlein is a malaria researcher and Professor of Global Health at Oxford who led trials of the first licensed malaria vaccine and the Star Homes housing trial in Tanzania.

Lorenzo Galluzzi

Lorenzo Galluzzi, born 1980, is a cell biologist and cancer researcher known for work on cell death, autophagy, and tumor immunology, and editor-in-chief of OncoImmunology.

Loretta Ford

Loretta Ford, born Loretta Pfingstel, was an American nurse who co-founded the nurse practitioner role with Henry Silver at the University of Colorado in 1965.

Lori J Pierce

Lori J Pierce is an American radiation oncologist at the University of Michigan who studies breast cancer radiotherapy and served as president of ASCO in 2020-2021.

Lori J. Wirth

Lori J. Wirth is an American medical oncologist who leads the Center for Head and Neck Cancers at Massachusetts General Hospital and specializes in thyroid cancer.

Lori L. Isom

Lori L. Isom is a pharmacologist and chair of Pharmacology at the University of Michigan, known for cloning sodium channel β subunit genes and Dravet syndrome research.

Lorne Babiuk

Lorne Babiuk is a Canadian veterinary virologist who directed the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan from 1993 to 2007, developing vaccines that save the cattle industry hundreds of millions annually.

Lorraine B. Ware

Lorraine B. Ware is an American physician-scientist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center known for research on acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and sepsis, including her widely cited 2000 New England Journal of Medicine review.

Lorraine J. Gudas

Lorraine J. Gudas is an American pharmacologist who has chaired the pharmacology department at Weill Cornell Medicine since 1991, studying vitamin A derivatives called retinoids for cancer treatment and prevention.

Louis A. Matis

Louis A. Matis is an American immunologist and physician who worked at the National Cancer Institute, NIH, and FDA before leading discovery of the complement inhibitor eculizumab (Soliris) at Alexion.

Louis Adolphus Duhring

Louis Adolphus Duhring (1845–1913) was an American dermatologist in Philadelphia who founded Penn Dermatology, co-founded the American Dermatological Association in 1876, and gave his name to dermatitis herpetiformis, known as Duhring's disease.

Louis B. Thomas

Louis B. Thomas is an American pathologist who headed the Laboratory of Pathology at the National Cancer Institute and helped establish vinyl chloride as a cause of liver cancer.

Louis Gallavardin

Louis Gallavardin (1875–1957) was a French physician and cardiologist of Lyon, among the first in Europe to devote himself entirely to cardiology, publishing about 360 papers.

Louis H. Miller

Louis H. Miller is an American NIH malaria researcher who showed the Duffy antigen is the receptor for Plasmodium vivax and defined var gene variation.

Louis Hamman

Louis Virgil Hamman (1877–1946) was an American physician at Johns Hopkins, regarded as a preeminent diagnostician, whose name is attached to Hamman's sign and the Hamman-Rich syndrome.