Medical and health researchers

Vicente Gilsanz

Vicente Gilsanz is a Spanish-born pediatric radiologist, professor of Radiology and Orthopaedic Surgery at USC and Children's Hospital Los Angeles, who studies bone development and osteoporosis.

Victor Anomah Ngu

Victor Anomah Ngu (1926–2011) was a Cameroonian professor of surgery, vice-chancellor of the University of Yaoundé, and minister of public health who founded the West African College of Surgeons.

Victor Babeș

Victor Babeș (1854–1926) was a Romanian physician and bacteriologist who founded Romania's first research institute and gave his name to the blood parasite genus Babesia.

Victor Dubowitz (born 1931) is a South African-born British pediatric neurologist known for Dubowitz syndrome, the Dubowitz neonatal assessments, and a half-century of work on childhood muscle disease.

Victor Eisenmenger

Victor Eisenmenger was an Austrian physician and laryngologist who described in 1897 the congenital heart malformation later named the Eisenmenger complex, and served as personal physician to Archduke Franz Ferdinand from 1895 to 1914.

Victor F. Tapson

Victor F. Tapson is an American pulmonologist known for work on venous thromboembolism and pulmonary hypertension, and Vice President of Medical Affairs at Inari Medical since 2021.

Victor Heiser

Victor Heiser (Victor George Heiser, 1873–1972) was an American physician who led Philippine public health from 1905 to 1915, then directed Rockefeller Foundation health programs across Asia.

Victor Herbert

Victor Herbert (1927–2002) was an American hematologist and nutrition scientist, a professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine who proved by self-experiment that folate deficiency alone causes megaloblastic anemia.

Victor J. Dzau

Victor J. Dzau is a Shanghai-born, McGill-trained cardiologist whose work on the renin-angiotensin system underpinned ACE inhibitor drugs, and who was president of the National Academy of Medicine from 2014 to 2026.

Victor L. J. Tybulewicz

Victor L. J. Tybulewicz is an immunologist at the Francis Crick Institute in London who studies lymphocyte development and created the Tc1 mouse model of Down syndrome.

Victor L. Yu

Victor L. Yu (died 2022) was an infectious-diseases physician at the University of Pittsburgh and its VA hospital, best known for identifying hospital tap water as the reservoir of Legionnaires' disease.

Victor Ling

Victor Ling is a Canadian cancer researcher known for discovering P-glycoprotein, the first molecule identified as responsible for drug resistance in cancer chemotherapy, and for founding the Terry Fox Research Institute.

Víctor M. Montori

Víctor M. Montori is a Peruvian-born endocrinologist and health services researcher at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for minimally disruptive medicine and founding the nonprofit The Patient Revolution.

Victor Nussenzweig

Victor Nussenzweig (1928–2025) was a Brazilian-born immunologist and pathologist at New York University who co-discovered the malaria circumsporozoite protein, the antigen of the vaccines RTS,S and R21.

Victor Pachon

Victor Pachon was a French physician and physiologist who invented the Pachon oscillometer, enabling accurate blood pressure determination. He directed a Paris lab and was a 1928 Nobel nominee.

Victor Veau

Victor Veau (1871–1949) was a French surgeon at the Hôpital des Enfants-Assistés in Paris who pioneered cleft palate surgery and created the four-class Veau classification still widely used.

Victor Velculescu

Victor Velculescu is an American oncology researcher at Johns Hopkins University who developed the SAGE gene-expression method, advanced liquid biopsy through cell-free DNA analysis, and founded the diagnostics companies Personal Genome Diagnostics and DELFI Diagnostics.

Victor Vertes

Victor Vertes (1927–2014) was an American physician and researcher who led medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, Cleveland, for over 25 years and helped develop the OPTIFAST diet program.

Victor von Ebner

Victor von Ebner (1842–1925) was an Austrian histologist at the University of Vienna whose name survives in Ebner's glands of the tongue and the lines of von Ebner.

Victor W. Sidel

Victor W. Sidel was an American physician and public health researcher at Montefiore and Albert Einstein in New York who co-founded Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Victoria Fromkin

Victoria Fromkin, born Victoria Alexandra Landish, was an American linguist at UCLA who established the study of speech errors as evidence for how language works in the mind.

Vijay G. Sankaran

Vijay G. Sankaran is an American physician-scientist at Harvard Medical School whose work on the BCL11A gene contributed to Casgevy, the first CRISPR therapy approved in the US.

Vijay H. Shah

Vijay H. Shah is an American hepatologist and physician-scientist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who became its Executive Dean of Research in 2024 and studies alcohol-associated liver disease, cirrhosis, and portal hypertension.

Vikram Deshpande

Vikram Deshpande is a gastrointestinal pathologist and Harvard Medical School professor who directed GI pathology at Beth Israel Deaconess and helped define the diagnostic pathology of IgG4-related disease.

Vikram Patel

Vikram Patel is an Indian-born psychiatrist and global mental health researcher who is Paul Farmer Professor at Harvard Medical School and co-founded Sangath in Goa, India.

Vinay Prasad

Vinay Prasad (Vinayak K. Prasad) is a hematologist-oncologist and UCSF professor known for research on FDA cancer drug approvals and for directing the FDA's vaccine division from 2025 to 2026.

Vincent Cottin

Vincent Cottin (born 1967) is a French pulmonologist, professor of respiratory medicine at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, known for characterizing combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema.

Vincent DeQuattro

Vincent DeQuattro (1933–2001) was an American cardiologist and hypertension researcher who led the hypertension service at LAC+USC Medical Center and taught at USC for 35 years.

Vincent Dole

Vincent Paul Dole (1913–2006) was an American physician and addiction researcher at Rockefeller University who, with Marie Nyswander, developed methadone maintenance treatment for heroin addiction.