Medical and health researchers

Philippe Coumel

Philippe Coumel (1935–2004) was a French cardiologist and clinical electrophysiologist who spent his career at Hôpital Lariboisière in Paris, introducing programmed electrical stimulation, the triangle of arrhythmogenesis, and Coumel's law.

Philippe Froguel

Philippe Froguel, born 1958 in Paris, is a French physician-geneticist who identified the first diabetes gene, glucokinase, and the obesity gene MC4R, and is a professor at Imperial College London.

Philippe Gabríel Steg

Philippe Gabriel Steg, also published as P. Gabriel Steg, is a French interventional cardiologist and clinical trialist who is chief of cardiology at Hôpital Bichat in Paris.

Philippe Généreux

Philippe Généreux is a Canadian interventional cardiologist at Morristown Medical Center, New Jersey, whose EARLY TAVR trial showed early valve replacement halves risk in asymptomatic aortic stenosis.

Philippe Gros

Philippe Gros, born 1956 in France, is a Canadian molecular geneticist at McGill University who discovered disease genes behind immunodeficiency and spina bifida and won the Killam Prize.

Philippe Moreau

Philippe Moreau is a French hematologist, University Professor of Clinical Hematology at the University of Nantes, best known as principal investigator of the CASSIOPEIA and MajesTEC-1 multiple myeloma trials.

Philippe Morice

Philippe Morice is a French gynecological oncology surgeon at Gustave Roussy in Villejuif, known for fertility preservation and conservative surgery in ovarian and cervical cancer.

Philippe Pîbarot

Philippe Pibarot is a Canadian cardiovascular researcher, professor at Université Laval, and Canada Research Chair in Cardiac Valvular Diseases, known for work on aortic stenosis and prosthetic heart valves.

Philippe Ravaud

Philippe Ravaud is a French epidemiologist and rheumatologist, professor at Université Paris Cité, who directed the CRESS research center, led the ComPaRe chronic-disease cohort, and studies trial methodology.

Philippe Van de Perre

Philippe Van de Perre, born 1955, is a French physician-scientist in bacteriology and virology who in 1991 first demonstrated that HIV is transmitted from mother to child through breastfeeding.

Phillip A. Low

Phillip A. Low is an American neurologist at Mayo Clinic known for inventing the QSART test and co-authoring the diagnostic criteria for multiple system atrophy.

Phillip Görden

Phillip Gorden (1934–2026) was an American endocrinologist at the National Institutes of Health who served as the seventh director of NIDDK from 1986 to 1999 and pioneered leptin replacement therapy for lipodystrophy.

Phillip I. Tarr

Phillip I. Tarr is an American pediatric infectious-disease physician-scientist at Washington University School of Medicine, known for research on Shiga toxin–producing E. coli and hemolytic-uremic syndrome.

Phillip P. Toskes

Phillip P. Toskes (1940–2021) was an American gastroenterologist at the University of Florida known for showing the pancreas is required for normal vitamin B12 absorption.

Phin Cohen

Phin Cohen is an American physician and hematologist at Harvard Medical School and the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, known for 1960s research on platelets and thrombocytopenia.

Phyllis J. Kanki

Phyllis J. Kanki is a virologist and Mary Woodard Lasker Professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, known for characterizing HIV-2 in Senegal.

Pier Luigi Zinzani

Pier Luigi Zinzani, born in 1959 in Arenzano, Italy, is an Italian hematologist and full professor at the University of Bologna known for leading trials of new drugs in Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Pier Mannuccio Mannucci

Pier Mannuccio Mannucci is an Italian hematologist and professor emeritus at the University of Milan, known for hemophilia research and the first clinical use of desmopressin.

Pier Paolo Pandolfi

Pier Paolo Pandolfi is an Italian-born cancer geneticist, born in Rome, known for his work on the tumor suppressors PTEN and PML and on acute promyelocytic leukemia.

PierFranco Conte

PierFranco Conte is an Italian medical oncologist and full professor at the University of Padova, known for the OlympiAD olaparib trial in BRCA-mutated breast cancer.

Piero Anversa

Piero Anversa is an Italian-trained cardiologist who directed the Center for Regenerative Medicine at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital and is known for his work on cardiac stem cells.

Piero Ruggenenti

Piero Ruggenenti, born in Milan in 1958, is an Italian nephrologist who heads renal medicine at the Mario Negri Institute in Bergamo and led landmark kidney trials.

Pierre Amarenco

Pierre Amarenco is a French neurologist and stroke researcher, Professor at Paris University, who founded the stroke center and SOS-TIA clinic at Bichat hospital in Paris.

Pierre D. Delmas

Pierre D. Delmas, also published as P. D. Delmas, was a French rheumatologist and bone researcher (1950–2008) at Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, known for bone turnover markers and co-founding the International Osteoporosis Foundation.

Pierre Delbet

Pierre Louis Ernest Delbet (1861–1957) was a French surgeon and professor of clinical surgery in Paris, best known for promoting magnesium chloride as a wound treatment and cancer-prevention advocate.

Pierre Ducimetière

Pierre Ducimetière (1942–2026) was a French cardiovascular epidemiologist at Inserm, called the father of French cardiovascular epidemiology, who led the Paris Prospective Study and published landmark coronary heart disease research.

Pierre Eugène Ménétrier

Pierre Eugène Ménétrier (1859–1935) was a French pathologist, surgeon, oncologist, and medical historian at Paris whose 1888 description of seven autopsy cases founded Ménétrier's disease, a rare protein-losing stomach disorder.

Pierre Fenaux

Pierre Fenaux is a French hematologist and professor at Université Paris Cité who heads the seniors hematology service at Hôpital Saint-Louis and leads the Groupe Francophone des Myélodysplasies.

Pierre Grabar

Pierre Grabar (1898–1986) was a French biochemist and immunologist, born in Kiev, who co-developed immunoelectrophoretic analysis with C. A. Williams in 1952 and spent most of his career at the Institut Pasteur in Paris.