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Nicholas J. Dyson

Nicholas J. Dyson is a cancer biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School known for identifying the p107 protein and showing that E2F-1 acts as a tumor suppressor.

Nicholas J. Leeper

Nicholas J. Leeper is an American physician-scientist and cardiologist at Stanford University School of Medicine who studies atherosclerosis, known for discoveries in efferocytosis and CD47 biology.

Nicholas J. Shaheen

Nicholas J. Shaheen is an American gastroenterologist and physician-scientist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, known for research on Barrett's esophagus and reflux disease.

Nicholas J. Talley

Nicholas J. Talley is an Australian neurogastroenterologist, Distinguished Laureate Professor at the University of Newcastle, who helped develop the Rome Criteria and researched IBS and functional dyspepsia.

Nicholas J. Vogelzang

Nicholas J. Vogelzang was an American medical oncologist specializing in genitourinary cancers and mesothelioma who led trials producing approvals of pemetrexed, abiraterone, and atezolizumab, and died in 2022.

Nicholas J. Wareham

Nicholas J. Wareham, also known as Nicholas Wareham, is a British physician-epidemiologist who has directed the MRC Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge since 2003, studying type 2 diabetes prevention.

Nicholas J. White

Nicholas J. White (1951–2026) was a British physician-scientist in tropical medicine, based in Bangkok, whose clinical trials established artemisinin therapy as the standard treatment for falciparum malaria.

Nicholas John White

Sir Nicholas John White (1951–2026) was a British professor of tropical medicine at Mahidol University and Oxford whose work established artemisinin-based combination therapy as the worldwide malaria standard.

Nicholas K. Gonatas

Nicholas K. Gonatas (1930-2014) was a Greek-born American physician-scientist in neuropathology and cell biology, a University of Pennsylvania professor who described four congenital myopathies and studied the Golgi apparatus in motor neuron disease.

Nicholas L. Mills

Nicholas L. Mills is a British cardiologist and clinical trialist, British Heart Foundation Chair of Cardiology at the University of Edinburgh and consultant at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

Nicholas L. Tilney

Nicholas Lechmere Tilney (1935–2013) was an American transplant surgeon and immunology researcher who directed Brigham and Women's Hospital's transplant service in Boston from 1976 to 1992.

Nicholas Lydon

Nicholas Lydon is a British biochemist who led the Ciba-Geigy tyrosine-kinase program that discovered imatinib (Gleevec), the first drug designed to inhibit a specific protein kinase.

Nicholas Marston

Nicholas A. Marston is an American cardiologist and clinical investigator in the TIMI Study Group at Brigham and Women's Hospital, known for olezarsen trials and genetic risk prediction.

Nicholas McGranahan

Nicholas McGranahan is a British computational biologist and Professor of Cancer Evolution at the UCL Cancer Institute, known for studying tumor heterogeneity and immune escape in lung cancer.

Nicholas Nelson

Nicholas Nelson is an American pediatric researcher who published from Harvard Medical School and Boston hospitals between 1962 and 1971 on newborn lung function and fetal blood oxygen affinity.

Nicholas P. Restifo

Nicholas P. Restifo is an American physician and immunologist known for developing cancer immunotherapies, leading anti-tumor T cell research at the National Cancer Institute for nearly three decades.

Nicholas W. Morrell

Nicholas W. Morrell is a British physician-scientist in pulmonary vascular medicine and Emeritus Professor of Medicine at Cambridge, known for defining how BMPR-II mutations cause pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Nicholas Wald

Sir Nicholas John Wald, born 1944, is a British physician and epidemiologist who pioneered antenatal screening, showed folic acid prevents neural tube defects, and co-invented the Polypill.

Nicholas Wood

Nicholas Wood is a British neurologist and human geneticist, Galton Professor of Genetics at University College London, known for identifying Parkinson's disease genes including PINK1 and LRRK2.

Nick Black

Sir Nick Black is a British physician-scientist and Emeritus Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, known for championing patient-reported outcome measures in the NHS.

Nick Watts

Nick Watts is an Australian- and UK-licensed medical doctor who directs the Centre for Sustainable Medicine at NUS, after serving as NHS England's first Chief Sustainability Officer.

Nico H.J. Pijls

Nico H.J. Pijls, known as Nico Pijls, is a Dutch biomedical engineer and interventional cardiologist who originated fractional flow reserve and led the DEFER and FAME trials.

Nicola Aceto

Nicola Aceto (born 1982) is an Italian cancer biologist and professor of molecular oncology at ETH Zurich, known for discovering metastatic circulating tumor cell clusters.

Nicola Low

Nicola Low is a British infectious disease epidemiologist, professor at the University of Bern since 2010, known for WHO estimates of curable STIs and chlamydia screening research.

Nicola P. Klein

Nicola P. Klein is an American vaccine researcher who directs the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center in Oakland, California, and studies vaccine effectiveness and safety.

Nicola Pende

Nicola Pende (1880–1970) was an Italian physician and politician who introduced endocrinology to Italy and founded biotypology, a school of constitutional medicine; a fascist senator, he signed the 1938 Manifesto della razza.

Nicolae Minovici

Nicolae Minovici (1868–1941) was a Romanian forensic physician who founded Bucharest's first ambulance service, studied hanging through experiments on himself, and left his villa to the city as a folk art museum.

Nicolae Paulescu

Nicolae Paulescu was a Romanian physiologist who showed in 1921 that a pancreatic extract, pancreine, lowers blood glucose in diabetic dogs, a forerunner of insulin.

Nicolaos E. Madias

Nicolaos E. Madias (1944–2024) was a Greek-born American nephrologist at Tufts University whose widely used reviews and fluid-prescribing equation shaped treatment of sodium and acid-base disorders.

Nicolas Danchin

Nicolas Danchin (born 1953) is a French cardiologist and Professor of Medicine at Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou in Paris, known for leading the French FAST-MI infarction registries.