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Warren E. Grupe
Warren E. Grupe (1933–2023) was an American pediatric nephrologist at Harvard Medical School whose 1976 chlorambucil trial established alkylating agents as standard therapy for frequently relapsing nephrotic syndrome in children.
Warren Henry Cole
Warren Henry Cole (1898–1990) was an American surgeon who co-developed cholecystography, gallbladder x-ray imaging, and headed surgery at the University of Illinois from 1936 to 1966.
Warren J. Manning
Warren J. Manning is an American cardiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston who leads non-invasive cardiac imaging and is a Harvard Medical School professor.
Warren M. Jackman
Warren M. Jackman is an American cardiac electrophysiologist at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center whose landmark 1991 and 1992 papers made catheter ablation a curative treatment for supraventricular tachycardias.
Warren M. Zapol
Warren M. Zapol (1942–2021) was an American anesthesiologist and critical-care physician-scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard, best known for demonstrating inhaled nitric oxide as a selective pulmonary vasodilator.
Waun Ki Hong
Waun Ki Hong (1942–2019) was a South Korean-born American medical oncologist at MD Anderson who pioneered chemoprevention and showed advanced laryngeal cancer could be treated without removing the voice box.
Wayne A. Border
Wayne A. Border is a physician-scientist and emeritus professor of nephrology at the University of Utah whose 1992 Nature work identified decorin as a natural inhibitor of TGF-β-driven kidney scarring.
Wayne A. Ray
Wayne A. Ray is an American pharmacoepidemiologist who spent nearly fifty years at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, known for studies of erythromycin, NSAIDs, and antipsychotic drug safety.
Wayne Hall (Australian addiction scientist)
Wayne Hall, full name Wayne Denis Hall, is an Australian addiction scientist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland, known for research on cannabis, illicit drugs, and nicotine.
Wayne Katon
Wayne Katon (1950–2015) was an American psychiatrist at the University of Washington who developed and tested the collaborative care model for treating depression in primary care.
Wei Gu
Wei Gu is a molecular biologist and Columbia University professor who showed that acetylation switches on p53's DNA-binding activity and traced how p53 suppresses tumors through ferroptosis.
Wei Zheng (medical researcher)
Wei Zheng is a physician-scientist in cancer epidemiology and genetics who directs the Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center and leads large-scale genetic studies of breast and colorectal cancer risk.
Weibo Cai
Weibo Cai is a Chinese-American scientist and Vilas Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison working in molecular imaging, nanobiotechnology, and radio-nanomedicine, known for tumor-targeting carbon nanotubes and theranostics.
Weizhe Hong
Weizhe Hong is a neuroscientist and professor at UCLA who leads a laboratory studying the neural mechanisms of social behavior, including empathy, helping, and parenting.
Wen Xie
Wen Xie is a physician-scientist in drug metabolism who chairs Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, known for his 2000 Nature paper on humanized xenobiotic receptor mice.
Wen-Hwa Lee
Wen-Hwa Lee (李文华) is a Taiwanese cancer biologist who co-discovered the retinoblastoma tumor suppressor gene and defined how BRCA1 and BRCA2 work in DNA repair.
Wendell F. Rosse
Wendell Franklyn Rosse is an American physician-scientist in hematology and immunology at Duke University whose research on paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria revealed the disease's complement-sensitive red cell defect.
Wendy Atkin
Wendy Atkin (1947–2018) was a British epidemiologist at St Mark's Hospital and Imperial College London whose trials showed a single sigmoidoscopy cuts bowel cancer incidence and mortality, reshaping NHS screening.
Wendy Bickmore
Wendy Bickmore, also known as Wendy A. Bickmore, is a British genome organization researcher who directs the MRC Human Genetics Unit at the University of Edinburgh since 2015.
Wendy Chung
Wendy Chung is a clinical and molecular geneticist who is Pediatrician-in-Chief at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for identifying genes behind more than 60 Mendelian conditions.
Wendy Graham
Wendy J. Graham is an obstetric epidemiologist and professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, known for the Sisterhood Method for estimating maternal mortality.
Wendy Levinson
Wendy Levinson is a Canadian general internist at the University of Toronto who founded Choosing Wisely Canada and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2014.
Wendy Troxel
Wendy M. Troxel is an American sleep scientist and clinical psychologist at the RAND Corporation, best known for research on adolescent sleep and advocating later school start times.
Wendy Webber Chapman
Wendy Webber Chapman is a medical informatics researcher known for NLP algorithms that interpret clinical conditions in doctors' notes, and a National Academy of Medicine member since 2017.
Werner G. Daniel
Werner G. Daniel (1947, Coburg – died before 2025) was a German cardiologist who held the internal medicine chair at Erlangen from 1997 to 2012, pioneered transesophageal echocardiography, and received the Bundesverdienstkreuz in 2020.
Werner Hacke
Werner Hacke, born in 1948, is a German neurologist and stroke researcher who led the ECASS trials and chaired neurology at Heidelberg University from 1987 to 2014.
Werner Poewe
Werner Poewe, born 1951, is an Austrian neurologist who directed the Department of Neurology at the Medical University of Innsbruck from 1995 to 2019 and has published more than 500 papers on Parkinson's disease.
Werner Schäfer
Werner Schäfer (1912–2000) was a German virologist who showed that fowl plague virus is an influenza virus and led the Max Planck Institute for Virus Research in Tübingen.
Werner Scheithauer
Werner Scheithauer was an Austrian medical oncologist at the Medical University of Vienna known for gastrointestinal cancer trials, including the X-ACT capecitabine study; he died in 2024.
Werner Schulemann
Werner Schulemann (1888–1975) was a German pharmacologist who co-developed plasmochin (pamaquine), the first successful synthetic antimalarial, and later held the pharmacology chair at the University of Bonn.