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Nobuhiro Yamada

Nobuhiro Yamada is a Japanese endocrinologist and professor at the University of Tsukuba whose laboratory studies lipid metabolism, insulin resistance, and atherosclerosis, including the Elovl6 fatty acid elongase.

Noël Fiessinger

Noël Fiessinger (1881–1946) was a French physician and professor of medicine who, with Edgar Leroy, described in 1916 the conjunctivo-urethro-synovial syndrome now called reactive arthritis.

Noel G. McElvaney

Noel G. McElvaney (Noel Gerry McElvaney) is an Irish respiratory physician-scientist, Professor of Medicine at RCSI since 1998, known for cystic fibrosis and alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency research.

Noel S. Weiss

Noel S. Weiss is an American cancer epidemiologist and Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology at the University of Washington, known for landmark work on estrogen therapy and cancer screening.

Noopur Raje

Noopur Raje (Noopur S. Raje) is a hematologist-oncologist directing the Center for Multiple Myeloma at Massachusetts General Hospital, known for leading the first-in-human trial of the CAR T-cell therapy idecabtagene vicleucel.

Nora Heisterkamp

Nora Heisterkamp is a hematology and oncology researcher at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and Children's Hospital Los Angeles, known for identifying the BCR and ABL genes.

Norah A. Terrault

Norah A. Terrault is a transplant hepatologist and 2023 AASLD President who leads the Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases Division at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

Norbert F. Voelkel

Norbert F. Voelkel is a German-trained physician-scientist in pulmonary vascular medicine, trained at Hamburg and Denver, known for work on pulmonary hypertension, emphysema, and the right ventricle.

Norbert Freinkel

Norbert Freinkel (1926–1989) was an American endocrinologist and Northwestern University professor whose research on diabetes in pregnancy helped reduce infant mortality in diabetic women's babies.

Norbert Gleicher

Norbert Gleicher is a reproductive medicine specialist who has led the Center for Human Reproduction in New York since 1999 and published over 500 papers.

Norbert Hirschhorn

Norbert Hirschhorn, born 1938, is an American physician-scientist who helped develop oral rehydration therapy for cholera, an innovation estimated to have saved more than 50 million lives.

Norbert Joseph Pelc

Norbert Joseph Pelc is an American medical imaging physicist and emeritus Stanford professor known for MRI, CT, and digital radiography methods, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012.

Norbert Lameire

Norbert Lameire (born 1940) is a Belgian nephrologist, emeritus professor at Ghent University Hospital, known for Lancet seminars and KDIGO guidelines on acute kidney injury.

Norbert Pardi

Norbert Pardi is a Hungarian biochemist and mRNA vaccine researcher, Associate Professor of Microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania, known for the nucleoside-modified mRNA lipid nanoparticle vaccine platform.

Norbert Schmitz

Norbert Schmitz is a German hematologist who led the Kiel clinic and Hamburg's Asklepios St. Georg, running landmark trials on transplantation for relapsed Hodgkin's disease and lymphoma.

Norbert Stefan

Norbert Stefan is a German physician-scientist in clinical and experimental diabetology, a professor at University Hospital Tübingen since 2011 known for work on fatty liver disease and metabolically healthy obesity.

Norma K.C. Ramsay

Norma K.C. Ramsay (1944–2026) was a Canadian-born American pediatric hematologist-oncologist at the University of Minnesota who helped establish bone marrow transplantation as a treatment for children with leukemia.

Norman B. Javitt

Norman B. Javitt is an American physician-investigator in hepatology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, known for research on hepatic bile formation and bile acid synthesis from cholesterol.

Norman Bank

Norman Bank (died 2016) was an American nephrologist and professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, described as one of the founders of nephrology as a medical specialty.

Norman Barrett

Norman Rupert Barrett (1903–1979) was an Australian-born English thoracic surgeon at St Thomas's and the Brompton hospitals in London, remembered for Barrett's esophagus, which he described in 1950.

Norman F. Boyd

Norman F. Boyd, also cited as Norman Boyd, is a physician and epidemiologist at the University of Toronto known for establishing mammographic density as a breast cancer risk factor.

Norman Geschwind

Norman Geschwind (1926–1984) was an American neurologist and Harvard professor who founded modern behavioral neurology; his 1965 papers on disconnexion syndromes and his work on brain asymmetry shaped clinical practice for two decades.

Norman Gregg

Sir Norman McAlister Gregg (1892–1966) was an Australian ophthalmologist in Sydney who in 1941 first linked maternal rubella to congenital defects, leading to rubella vaccination.

Norman H. Bell

Norman H. Bell is an American endocrinology researcher at the Medical University of South Carolina who studied vitamin D metabolism and bone mass in Black adults.

Norman Heatley

Norman George Heatley was a British biochemist at Oxford who devised the assay, extraction, and culture methods that made penicillin mass production possible in 1940–41.

Norman K. Hollenberg

Norman K. Hollenberg (1936–2020) was a Winnipeg-born nephrologist and hypertension researcher at Harvard whose work on the renin-angiotensin system shaped ACE inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers.

Norman M. Kaplan

Norman M. Kaplan (1931–2020) was an American physician-scientist in hypertension who founded and led the hypertension program at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and wrote Kaplan's Clinical Hypertension, the field's most authoritative textbook.

Norman S. Talner

Norman S. Talner (1925–2017) was an American pediatric cardiologist who built the pediatric cardiology program at Yale and later taught at Duke, helping develop fetal echocardiography.

Norman Sharpe

Norman Sharpe is a New Zealand cardiologist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Auckland whose 1980s trials showed ACE inhibitors prevent ventricular enlargement after heart attack.

Norman Sharpless

Norman E. Sharpless is an American oncologist and aging researcher who directed the National Cancer Institute from 2017 to 2022 and was acting FDA commissioner in 2019.