Medical and health researchers

Edward G. Lakatta

Edward G. Lakatta is an American physician-scientist in cardiovascular aging, founder and longtime director of the National Institute on Aging's Laboratory of Cardiovascular Science in Baltimore.

Edward Gane

Edward Gane, formally Edward John Gane, is a New Zealand hepatologist at Auckland City Hospital who led trials of the first oral, interferon-free cure for hepatitis C.

Edward Genton is a physician in internal medicine known for platelet-survival studies in thrombotic disease and evaluations of platelet-inhibiting drugs, working at the University of Colorado and McMaster University.

Edward Guadagnoli

Edward Guadagnoli is an American health care policy researcher and emeritus professor at Harvard Medical School known for studies of regional variation in cardiac care.

Sep 17, 2026

Edward H. Ahrens Jr.

Edward H. Ahrens Jr. (1915–2000) was an American physician-scientist at Rockefeller University who showed saturated and unsaturated dietary fats have opposite effects on blood cholesterol and founded the Journal of Lipid Research.

Edward H. Kass

Edward H. Kass was an American epidemiologist who founded and directed the Channing Laboratory in Boston and set the quantitative urine-culture threshold for urinary-tract infection known as the Kass count.

Edward H. Koo

Edward H. Koo (1954–2025) was an American neurologist and neuroscientist, professor at UCSD and the National University of Singapore, known for work on amyloid precursor protein and gamma-secretase in Alzheimer's disease.

Edward H. Lambert

Edward H. Lambert (1915–2003) was an American neurologist and physiologist at the Mayo Clinic who founded the first US electromyography laboratory in 1947 and proved Lambert–Eaton myasthenic syndrome is a presynaptic disorder.

Edward I. Ginns

Edward I. Ginns is an American neurologist who directs the Lysosomal Storage Disorders Treatment and Research Center at UMass Chan Medical School, known for Gaucher disease research.

Edward J. Benz

Edward J. Benz, born 1946, is an American hematologist and geneticist who first showed a beta-globin mRNA defect underlies beta thalassemia and led Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Edward J. Goetzl

Edward J. Goetzl is an American physician-scientist in allergy and immunology who moved from Harvard to UCSF and later developed blood tests for predicting Alzheimer's disease.

Edward J. Mills

Edward J. Mills is a clinical epidemiologist and part-time professor at McMaster University, known for large HIV meta-analyses and for leading the TOGETHER trial of repurposed drugs for early COVID-19.

Sep 17, 2026

Edward Jenner

Edward Jenner (1749–1823), English physician of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, introduced vaccination against smallpox using cowpox; his 1796 Phipps experiment and 1798 Inquiry founded immunology, leading to smallpox eradication in 1980.

Edward K. Wakeland

Edward K. Wakeland, born in 1949, is an immunologist and immunogeneticist at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas known for work on MHC diversity and lupus genetics.

Edward L. Giovannucci

Edward L. Giovannucci is an American physician and nutritional cancer epidemiologist, Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at Harvard, known for research on diet and cancer.

Edward L. Hannan

Edward L. Hannan is an American health services researcher and Distinguished Professor at the University at Albany, SUNY, known for outcomes research on cardiac surgery and stenting.

Edward M. Brown

Edward M. Brown, fully Edward Meigs Brown, is an American endocrinologist and emeritus Harvard professor whose laboratory identified and cloned the calcium-sensing receptor, earning the Endocrine Society's highest award in 2019.

Edward M. Sellers

Edward M. Sellers is a Canadian internist and clinical pharmacologist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, known for work on drug interactions and psychoactive drug abuse liability.

Edward Mellanby

Sir Edward Mellanby (1884–1955) was a British medical scientist who showed that rickets results from dietary deficiency and is cured by cod-liver oil, and led the Medical Research Council from 1933 to 1949.

Edward P. Richardson

Edward P. Richardson, also known as E. P. Richardson, was an American neuropathologist who led Massachusetts General Hospital's neuropathology laboratory from 1951 to 1989 and named PML.

Edward T. Ryan

Edward T. Ryan is an American infectious diseases physician-researcher who directs Global Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital and studies cholera, typhoid, and Shigella vaccines.

Edward T.H. Yeh

Edward T.H. Yeh (叶笃行) is a Taiwanese-born American molecular cardiologist who discovered SUMO and NEDD8 and is a professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

Edward W. Gregg

Edward W. Gregg is an American diabetes epidemiologist who led CDC diabetes surveillance, then joined Imperial College London, and now heads the RCSI School of Population Health.

Edward W. Hook

Edward W. Hook III is an American infectious-diseases physician and researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham who specializes in syphilis, gonorrhea, and other sexually transmitted infections.

Edwin B. Astwood

Edwin B. Astwood (1909–1976) was a Bermudian-born endocrinologist who showed that drug therapy could control Graves' disease without surgery, developing propylthiouracil and methimazole at Tufts.

Edwin Claybrook

Edwin Claybrook, also known as Edwin B. Claybrook, was an American surgeon (1871–1931) remembered for Claybrook sign, heard in rupture of an abdominal organ after blunt trauma.

Edwin D. Kilbourne

Edwin D. Kilbourne (1920–2011) was an American physician and influenza virologist who developed the first genetically engineered influenza vaccines and led Mount Sinai's microbiology department.

Edwin Gale

Edwin A.M. Gale is a British diabetologist, Professor of Diabetic Medicine at the University of Bristol from 1997, known for the ENDIT type 1 diabetes prevention trial.

Edwin Klebs

Edwin Klebs (1834–1913) was a Prussian pathologist and bacteriologist who formulated the causal criteria for microbial disease years before Robert Koch and described the diphtheria bacillus in 1883.