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Perry F. Renshaw

Perry F. Renshaw is an American physician-scientist in psychiatric neuroimaging who led McLean Hospital's Brain Imaging Center from 1992 to 2008 and studies brain chemistry in mood disorders.

Perry J. Pickhardt

Perry J. Pickhardt is an American radiologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for developing CT colonography, or virtual colonoscopy, as a screening test for colorectal cancer.

Pertti J. Neuvonen

Pertti J. Neuvonen, full name Pertti Jaakko Neuvonen (1943–2020), was a Finnish professor of clinical pharmacology at Helsinki who identified over 200 drug–drug interactions and showed P450 inhibition can raise drug concentrations more than tenfold.

Petar Beron

Petar Beron (Петър Берон), born in Kotel around 1799 or 1800, was a Bulgarian physician and educational reformer whose 1824 Fish Primer was the first modern Bulgarian secular textbook.

Peter A. Calabresi

Peter A. Calabresi is an American neurologist and neuroimmunologist known for research on how immune cells damage the brain in multiple sclerosis and for retinal imaging to track the disease.

Peter A. Campochiaro

Peter A. Campochiaro, born in 1952, is an American ophthalmologist and Eccles Professor at Johns Hopkins' Wilmer Eye Institute who led gene therapy trials for macular degeneration.

Peter A. Edwards

Peter A. Edwards is a biological chemist at UCLA known for research on lipid metabolism and bile acids, which act as both digestive detergents and hormones.

Peter A. Merkel

Peter A. Merkel is an American rheumatologist who is Chief of Rheumatology at the University of Pennsylvania, leads the Vasculitis Clinical Research Consortium, and ran major vasculitis drug trials.

Peter Aaby

Peter Aaby is a Danish epidemiologist who founded the Bandim Health Project in Guinea-Bissau in 1978 and proposed that vaccines have non-specific effects on child survival.

Peter Arner

Peter Arner, born 1944 in Sweden, is a physician-scientist and Professor Emeritus at Karolinska Institutet known for showing that adult fat-cell number is fixed, with about 10% renewed yearly.

Peter Arvan

Peter Arvan is a physician-scientist, chief of Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Diabetes at the University of Michigan since 2003, known for research on proinsulin misfolding in diabetes.

Peter B. Becker

Peter B. Becker (Peter Becker) is a molecular biologist who studies chromatin dynamics and dosage compensation, and was Professor of Molecular Biology at LMU Munich from 1999 to 2026.

Peter Besmer

Peter Besmer (1940–2024) was a Swiss-born cancer biologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering who worked out Kit receptor biology and built the first GIST mouse models.

Peter Borchmann

Peter Borchmann is a German hematologist and oncologist at University Hospital Cologne, chairman of the German Hodgkin Study Group since 2022 and a Hodgkin lymphoma trial researcher.

Peter Brian Bach

Peter Brian Bach (Peter B. Bach) is an American physician and health policy researcher known for work on cancer drug pricing, Medicare policy, and lung cancer screening.

Peter Burney

Peter Burney is a British respiratory epidemiologist and emeritus professor at Imperial College London who led the ECRHS, the first standardized international asthma survey, and the BOLD COPD study.

Peter C Gøtzsche

Peter C Gøtzsche (P. C. Gotzsche) is a Danish physician and medical researcher who co-founded the Cochrane Collaboration in 1993 and was expelled from it in 2018.

Peter C. Brooks

Peter C. Brooks is an American angiogenesis and cancer biologist who leads a laboratory at MaineHealth Institute for Research in Scarborough, Maine, and teaches at Tufts.

Peter C. Butler

Peter C. Butler is an endocrinologist at UCLA who studies pancreatic beta cells in diabetes and led a 2003 finding that type 2 diabetes involves reduced beta cell mass.

Peter C. Nowell̀

Peter C. Nowell (1928–2016) was an American physician-scientist and cancer cytogeneticist at the University of Pennsylvania who co-discovered the Philadelphia chromosome and won the 1998 Lasker Award.

Peter C.M. van Zijl

Peter C.M. van Zijl is an MRI physicist and chemist at Johns Hopkins University, known for pioneering amide proton transfer (APT) imaging and CEST MRI, and founding director of the F.M. Kirby Research Center.

Peter Caravan

Peter Caravan is a chemist and molecular imaging scientist who co-directs the Institute for Innovation in Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital and teaches radiology at Harvard Medical School.

Peter Carmeliet

Peter Carmeliet is a Belgian physician-scientist known for angiogenesis research and endothelial cell metabolism, leading a laboratory at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology.

Peter Collins (cardiologist)

Peter Collins is a British clinical cardiologist, Professor at Imperial College London and Royal Brompton Hospital, known internationally for research on heart disease in women.

Peter D. Reaven

Peter D. Reaven is an American physician-scientist in endocrinology who directs the Diabetes Program at the Phoenix VA Health Care System and led major VA diabetes trials.

Peter D. Sly

Peter D. Sly is an Australian pediatric respiratory physician and children's environmental health researcher at the University of Queensland, awarded the Order of Australia in 2016 for his research.

Peter D. Wood

Peter D. Wood (1929–2011) was a British-born American researcher of lipid metabolism at Stanford whose controlled trials established how exercise, dieting, and moderate alcohol intake change blood cholesterol.

Peter Daszak

Peter Daszak, British disease ecologist, PhD University of East London 1993; former president of EcoHealth Alliance, now leads Nature Health Global; known for chytridiomycosis research, bat coronavirus NIH grants, WHO COVID origins probe, and 2025 HHS debarment.

Peter David Gluckman

Peter David Gluckman, born in 1949, is a New Zealand medical researcher who developed the first effective treatment for brain damage at birth and served as the country's first Chief Science Advisor.

Peter Dirks

Peter B. Dirks is a Canadian neurosurgeon and cancer stem-cell biologist at SickKids in Toronto, best known for identifying cancer stem cells in human brain tumors in 2003 and 2004.