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Vladimir R. Muzykantov
Vladimir R. Muzykantov is a pharmacologist at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, known for immunotargeting drugs and enzymes to blood vessel endothelium and for red blood cell carriers.
Vladimir Torchilin
Vladimir Torchilin, born 1946 in Moscow, is a University Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Northeastern University whose liposome and nanocarrier research made him pharmacology's most-cited researcher.
Vlado Perkovic
Vlado Perkovic is an Australian nephrologist and clinical trialist who led landmark international kidney disease trials including CREDENCE and FLOW, and became Provost of UNSW Sydney in 2023.
Volker Busskamp
Volker Busskamp (born 1980 in Bocholt, Germany) is a German neuroscientist and ophthalmology researcher known for optogenetic vision restoration in retinitis pigmentosa, and a University of Bonn professor since 2019.
Volker Diehl
Volker Diehl is a German hematologist and oncologist known for proving Epstein-Barr virus causes infectious mononucleosis, establishing the first Hodgkin lymphoma cell line, and developing the BEACOPP regimen.
Volker Heinemann
Volker Heinemann is a German medical oncologist and professor at LMU Munich, where he directs the Comprehensive Cancer Center and led the FIRE-3 colorectal cancer trial.
von Dungern
Emil Freiherr von Dungern (1867–1961) was a German bacteriologist and physiologist at Heidelberg who, with Ludwik Hirszfeld, demonstrated in 1910 that human blood groups are inherited according to Mendel's laws.
Vulimiri Ramalingaswami
Vulimiri Ramalingaswami (1921–2001) was an Indian pathologist and nutrition scientist who directed AIIMS, led the Indian Council of Medical Research, and pioneered research on malnutrition and iodine deficiency.
W. Allan Walker
W. Allan Walker is a pediatric gastroenterologist and mucosal immunologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for research on breast milk, newborn gut defenses, and necrotizing enterocolitis.
W. Allen Hauser
W. Allen Hauser (1937–2026) was an American neurologist and epilepsy epidemiologist, Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, whose seizure recurrence studies shaped the ILAE's definition of epilepsy.
W. Douglas Weaver
W. Douglas Weaver is an American cardiologist known for the Seattle MITI heart attack treatment trials, the 1996 angioplasty comparison, and serving as American College of Cardiology president from 2008.
W. Hardy Hendren
W. Hardy Hendren, also known as W.H. Hendren, was an American pediatric surgeon and urologist who founded pediatric surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and pioneered "undiversion," reconstructing children's urinary tracts.
W. Ian Lipkin
W. Ian Lipkin is an American physician-scientist who directs the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University and identified West Nile virus in 1999.
W. Jonathan Lederer
W. Jonathan Lederer, also known as W. J. Lederer, is an American cardiac physiologist at the University of Maryland known for the 1992 discovery of calcium sparks.
W. King Engel
William King Engel (1930–2025) was an American neurologist who pioneered muscle biopsy for neuromuscular disease, led neurology at NIH from 1963, and co-directed USC's neuromuscular program.
W. Nicholas Haining
W. Nicholas Haining is an Oxford-trained pediatric oncologist known for work on T cell exhaustion in cancer and as co-founder of the cell therapy company ArsenalBio.
W. Pagé Faulk
W. Pagé Faulk, also published as W. Page Faulk, is an immunologist known for research on placental immunology, transplantation, and wound repair, including a 1980 Lancet study of human amnion in wound healing.
W. Paul Glezen
W. Paul Glezen, born William Paul Glezen, was an American influenza epidemiologist at Baylor College of Medicine whose Houston surveillance showed flu spreads through schoolchildren, supporting child vaccination.
W. Timothy Garvey
W. Timothy Garvey is an American endocrinologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham known for obesity research and leading the SURMOUNT-2 and REDEFINE weight-loss drug trials.
W.E. Stehbens
William E. Stehbens was a New Zealand pathologist, Chair of Pathology at the Wellington Clinical School, and founding director of the Malaghan Institute who challenged the lipid hypothesis of atherosclerosis.
W.H. Wilson Tang
W.H. Wilson Tang is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist at the Cleveland Clinic known for human studies linking gut microbiota metabolites, especially TMAO, to cardiovascular disease.
W.H.J. Summerskill
W.H.J. Summerskill, born William Hedley John Summerskill, was a British-born hepatologist who directed the Mayo Clinic gastroenterology unit from 1959 until his death in 1977.
W.R. Lieb
W.R. Lieb, William R. Lieb, was a biophysicist at Imperial College London whose decades of research showed that general anesthetics act directly on proteins rather than membrane lipids.
Wadi N. Suki
Wadi N. Suki is a Houston nephrologist and physician-scientist, born in Khartoum, Sudan, known for his 1970 paper on acute treatment of hypercalcemia with furosemide.
Wadih Arap
Wadih Arap is a physician-scientist in genitourinary oncology who directs the Cancer Program at University Hospital Newark and is known for vascular ZIP codes, tissue-specific blood vessel signatures used for targeted drug delivery.
Wafaa El-Sadr
Wafaa El-Sadr is an Egyptian-born American physician and epidemiologist at Columbia University who founded ICAP, led HIV treatment programs across Africa, and received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2008.
Wafaie Fawzi
Wafaie Fawzi is a Sudanese-born physician and epidemiologist, Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Sciences at Harvard, known for randomized trials showing multivitamins improve outcomes in pregnant Tanzanian women.
Wafik El-Deiry
Wafik S. El-Deiry is an American cancer biologist and oncologist who discovered p21 as a p53-regulated gene and developed the drug dordaviprone, FDA approved in 2025.
Waldemar Haffkine
Waldemar Haffkine, also known as Waldemar Mordecai Haffkine, was a bacteriologist from Odessa who developed cholera and plague vaccines and pioneered controlled field trials in India.
Walid Gellad
Walid Gellad is an American physician-scientist in pharmacoepidemiology and health services research who leads research at VA Pittsburgh and directs the Center for Pharmaceutical Policy and Prescribing at the University of Pittsburgh.