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Louis J. Muglia
Louis J. Muglia is an American physician-scientist in medical genetics and pediatrics, known for research on the genetics of preterm birth and a 2017 New England Journal of Medicine study.
Louis Jacobsohn-Lask
Louis Jacobsohn-Lask, born Louis Jacobsohn, was a German neurologist and neuroanatomist known for the Bekhterev–Jacobsohn finger-flexion reflex and handbooks on nervous-system anatomy; expelled in 1933, he died in Sevastopol in 1940.
Louis K. Diamond
Louis K. Diamond was an American pediatric hematologist at Harvard Medical School, considered a founder of pediatric hematology, who devised the exchange transfusion for Rh disease.
Louis M. Sherwood
Louis M. Sherwood was an American endocrinologist whose laboratory work showed that blood calcium directly controls parathyroid hormone secretion, and who later held senior roles at Merck.
Louis M. Staudt
Louis M. Staudt is an American cancer researcher who defined the molecular subtypes of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and leads the NCI Lymphoid Malignancies Branch.
Louis R. Caplan
Louis R. Caplan, born 1936 in Baltimore, Maryland, is an American neurologist specializing in stroke, a Harvard Medical School professor at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center who founded the Harvard Stroke Registry.
Louis R. Wasserman
Louis R. Wasserman (1910–1999) was an American hematologist who spent nearly 60 years at Mount Sinai in New York, founding its hematology department and the Polycythemia Vera Study Group.
Louis S. Goodman
Louis S. Goodman (1906–2000) was an American pharmacologist who led the first effective anticancer chemotherapy with nitrogen mustard in 1942 and co-authored The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, still the field's standard reference.
Louis Sokoloff
Louis Sokoloff (1921–2015) was an American neuroscientist who led NIMH's Laboratory of Cerebral Metabolism and developed the 2-deoxyglucose method for mapping brain activity, the basis of PET imaging, winning the 1981 Lasker Award.
Louis V. Avioli
Louis V. Avioli was an American endocrinologist at Washington University who pioneered vitamin D research and founded the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research.
Louis Vermeulen
Louis Vermeulen (born 1984) is a Dutch molecular oncologist who studies cancer stem cell dynamics in the intestinal lining and colorectal cancer subtypes, and leads Discovery Oncology at Genentech.
Louis Weinstein
Louis Weinstein (1909-2000) was an American physician regarded as a founder of infectious diseases as a medical specialty, leading the field at Tufts from 1957 to 1975.
Louis Willems
Louis Willems (1822–1907) was a Belgian physician in Hasselt who showed in 1851 that inoculating cattle with diseased lung matter protects against bovine pleuropneumonia, a forerunner of Louis Pasteur.
Louis Wolff
Louis Wolff (1898–1972) was an American cardiologist in Boston who co-described Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome in 1930, led Beth Israel Hospital's electrocardiography laboratory from 1928 to 1964, and advanced spatial vectorcardiography.
Louis Zetzel
Louis Zetzel was an American gastroenterologist who led the Gastrointestinal Department at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and served as an associate clinical professor at Harvard Medical School.
Louisa Degenhardt
Louisa Degenhardt is an Australian psychologist and epidemiologist who studies the prevalence and health harms of illicit drug use, and is Research Director of NDARC at UNSW Sydney.
Louise M. Howard
Louise M. Howard, also known as Louise Howard, is a British perinatal psychiatrist and Professor Emerita of Women's Mental Health at King's College London, appointed OBE in 2023.
Louise Pilote
Louise Pilote is a Canadian general internist and clinical epidemiologist, a McGill professor and Deputy Director of the RI-MUHC, known for research on sex and gender differences in cardiovascular disease.
Louise Ryan
Louise Ryan is an Australian biostatistician, Distinguished Professor of Statistics at the University of Technology Sydney and adjunct professor at Harvard, known for statistical methods for cancer and environmental health research.
Lowell S. Young
Lowell S. Young, also known as Lowell Sung-Yi Young, is an American infectious-disease physician and epidemiologist known for decades of mycobacterial disease research at the Kuzell Institute in San Francisco.
Lowell T. Coggeshall
Lowell T. Coggeshall, full name Lowell Thelwell Coggeshall (1901–1987), was an American physician who worked on tropical medicine and malaria and led the University of Chicago's biological sciences division.
Lu Qi (nutritional genetic epidemiologist)
Lu Qi (吕奇) is a nutritional genetic epidemiologist who leads the Tulane University Obesity Research Center and studies how genes and diet interact to shape obesity and diabetes risk.
Lubertus Berrens
Lubertus Berrens (born 1933) is a Dutch biochemist and immunologist known for research on the chemical structure of atopic allergens, especially in house dust, winning the 1972 Robert Koch Prize.
Luc G.T. Morris
Luc G.T. Morris, often published as Luc Morris, is an American head and neck surgical oncologist and cancer immunogenomics researcher at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
Luca A. Lotta
Luca A. Lotta, also published as Luca Lotta, is an Italian-trained physician and genetic epidemiologist who studies obesity genetics and leads cardiometabolic disease genetics at Regeneron.
Luca Gianni
Luca Gianni, born in Milan in 1951, is an Italian medical oncologist whose NOAH and NeoSphere trials established neoadjuvant and dual-blockade HER2 therapy in breast cancer.
Luca Richeldi
Luca Richeldi, born 1963 in Modena, is an Italian pulmonologist who led the INPULSIS trials of nintedanib and is a professor of respiratory diseases at Università Cattolica in Rome.
Luca Scorrano
Luca Scorrano, born 1971 in Padua, is an Italian physician-scientist and Full Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Padua, known for work on OPA1 and mitochondrial cristae.
Lucas R. Massoth
Lucas R. Massoth is an American pathologist trained at Massachusetts General Hospital, known for New England Journal of Medicine case reports and genomic studies of rare histiocytic tumors.
Lucian L. Leape
Lucian L. Leape (1930–2025) was an American pediatric surgeon and Harvard health policy professor regarded as the father of the modern patient safety movement, known for the Harvard Medical Practice Study.