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Peter J. Scheuer

Peter J. Scheuer (1928–2006) was a British hepatopathologist at the Royal Free Hospital and University College London, known for the textbook Liver Biopsy Interpretation and his classification of chronic hepatitis.

Peter J. Schwartz

Peter J. Schwartz is an Italian cardiologist known for his work on long QT syndrome and the autonomic nervous system, directing cardiac genetics research in Milan.

Peter J. Selby

Peter J. Selby is a British oncologist and Professor of Cancer Medicine at the University of Leeds, known for the acyclovir studies and the MRC Myeloma VII trial.

Peter J. Snyder

Peter J. Snyder is an American endocrinologist and professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, known for leading the Testosterone Trials and the 2024 finding that testosterone did not reduce fractures.

Peter John Campbell

Peter John Campbell is a cancer genomicist and clinician-scientist known for chromothripsis, kataegis, and mutational signatures, who led the Cancer, Ageing and Somatic Mutation program at the Wellcome Sanger Institute.

Peter John Morris

Sir Peter John Morris (1934–2022) was an Australian-born transplant surgeon who led surgery at Oxford and served as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Peter Johnson (medical oncologist)

Peter Johnson, also known as Peter M. Johnson, is a British medical oncologist at the University of Southampton known for the RAPID trial in Hodgkin lymphoma.

Peter Joseph Embi

Peter Joseph Embi is an American physician-scientist in biomedical informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center who created the nation's first Chief Research Information Officer role.

Peter Jüni

Peter Jüni is a Swiss clinical epidemiologist who led the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table and has been a professor at the University of Oxford since 2022.

Peter K. Gregersen

Peter K. Gregersen (born 1950) is an American rheumatologist and geneticist who heads the Robert S. Boas Center for Genomics and Human Genetics in Manhasset, New York.

Peter K. Lindenauer

Peter K. Lindenauer is an American physician and health-services researcher who studies hospital care quality and outcomes, now focused on COPD and pulmonary rehabilitation at UMass Chan – Baystate.

Peter K. Olitsky

Peter K. Olitsky (Peter Kosciusko Olitsky, 1886–1964) was an American virologist at the Rockefeller Institute who studied epidemic diseases and, with Albert Sabin, grew polio virus in human embryonic brain tissue in 1936.

Peter K. Sorger

Peter K. Sorger is a systems biologist at Harvard Medical School who heads its Program in Therapeutic Science and directs the Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology.

Peter Kerley

Peter Kerley, full name Sir Peter James Kerley, was an Irish radiologist who described the chest X-ray lines named after him, Kerley A, B, and C lines.

Peter L. Greenberg

Peter L. Greenberg is a hematologist and Professor of Medicine, Emeritus, at Stanford University, known for his work on the classification, prognosis, and treatment of myelodysplastic syndromes.

Peter L. Stern

Peter L. Stern, also known as Peter Stern, is a cancer immunologist and Group Leader at the University of Manchester, known for discovering the 5T4 oncofoetal antigen.

Peter Langhorne

Peter Langhorne is a physician and stroke researcher at the University of Glasgow, professor of stroke care from 2001 to 2020, who founded the Stroke Unit Trialists' Collaboration.

Peter Libby

Peter Libby is an American cardiovascular physician-scientist and Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School who established inflammation as a driving force in atherosclerosis and helped lead the CANTOS trial.

Peter Lichter

Peter Lichter is a German cancer geneticist who headed Molecular Genetics at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg and developed FISH and array-CGH into standard cancer research tools.

Peter M. Biggs

Peter M. Biggs (Peter Martin Biggs) was an English veterinary virologist who established the cause of Marek's disease and led development of the first vaccine against a cancer.

Peter M. Blumberg

Peter M. Blumberg is an American biochemical pharmacologist at the National Cancer Institute who identified protein kinase C as the receptor for phorbol ester tumor promoters.

Peter M. Doubilet

Peter M. Doubilet is a radiologist, Professor at Harvard Medical School, and Senior Vice Chair of Radiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, known for the 2013 criteria defining nonviable pregnancy on ultrasound.

Peter M. Glazer

Peter M. Glazer is an American radiation oncologist and physician-scientist who chairs the Department of Therapeutic Radiology at Yale, known for research on DNA repair, tumor hypoxia, and gene editing.

Peter M. Howley

Peter M. Howley is an American virologist and pathologist, the Shattuck Professor at Harvard Medical School, known for showing how high-risk HPV oncoproteins disable tumor suppressor pathways.

Peter M. Lansdorp

Peter M. Lansdorp, also known as Peter Lansdorp, is a Dutch-trained medical geneticist and cancer researcher in Vancouver who developed the Q-FISH and flow-FISH telomere measurement methods and Strand-seq.

Peter M. Sadow

Peter M. Sadow is an American anatomic pathologist, Director of Head and Neck Pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard professor, known for research on thyroid carcinogenesis.

Peter M. Small

Peter M. Small is an American infectious-disease physician-scientist who established the molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis at UCSF and Stanford, then designed and ran the Gates Foundation's global tuberculosis program.

Peter M. Strebel

Peter M. Strebel is a South African-trained physician-epidemiologist who led measles and rubella control at the CDC, WHO in Geneva, and Gavi, and is now a consultant in Geneva.

Peter M.A. Calverley

Peter M.A. Calverley, born 1949, is a British pulmonologist and Emeritus Professor of Respir Medicine at Liverpool, known for the TORCH and TIOSPIR COPD trials.

Peter Malfertheiner

Peter Malfertheiner (born 1950 in Kastelruth, Italy) is a German gastroenterologist known for Helicobacter pylori research, first-authoring the Maastricht V consensus report, and chairing gastroenterology at Magdeburg from 1995 to 2016.