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Elizabeth Murphy

Elizabeth Murphy is an NIH scientist who studies cardiac cell death and protection against it, leading the Cardiac Physiology Section at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

Elizabeth Nabel

Elizabeth (Betsy) Nabel, American cardiologist; NHLBI director 2005-2009, Brigham and Women's Hospital president 2010-2021, first NFL chief health and medical advisor; vascular gene transfer and progeria researcher.

Elizabeth P. Henske

Elizabeth P. Henske, also known as Elizabeth Petri Henske, is an American physician-scientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital who discovered that TSC2 mutations cause sporadic LAM.

Elizabeth Selvin

Elizabeth Selvin is an American epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins whose research on hemoglobin A1c helped establish it as a standard test for diagnosing diabetes; she directs the Welch Center.

Elizabeth Skidmore

Elizabeth Skidmore is an American occupational therapist and rehabilitation scientist, Associate Dean for Research at the University of Pittsburgh, known for research on cognitive impairment and stroke rehabilitation.

Elizabeth Smyth

Elizabeth Smyth is an Irish-trained medical oncologist at Oxford University Hospitals specializing in esophagogastric cancer; she chairs the EORTC GI Trials Group and was elected ESMO Director of Education in 2025.

Elizabeth Winzeler

Elizabeth A. Winzeler is an American malaria researcher at the University of California, San Diego, known for cell-based antimalarial drug discovery and the genetics of drug resistance in malaria parasites.

Elı́as Campo

Elías Campo Güerri, born 1955 in Boltaña, Spain, is a pathologist at the University of Barcelona known for genomic characterization of chronic lymphocytic leukemia and lymphoid neoplasms.

Ellen Frank (psychologist)

Ellen Frank is an American clinical psychologist and mood disorders researcher, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh, known for the 1990 maintenance-therapy trial and IPSRT.

Ellen Leibenluft

Ellen Leibenluft is an American psychiatrist at the National Institute of Mental Health known for research on pediatric bipolar disorder and severe chronic irritability in children.

Ellen Sidransky

Ellen Sidransky is an American pediatrician and clinical geneticist at the NIH who established GBA1 mutations as the most common genetic risk factor for Parkinson's disease.

Elli Papaemmanuil

Elli Papaemmanuil is a molecular geneticist leading the Papaemmanuil Lab at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, known for the 2016 genomic classification of acute myeloid leukemia.

Elliot Alpert

Elliot Alpert is an American medical researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard who established alpha-fetoprotein as a marker for liver cancer and fetal neural tube defects.

Elliot B. Tapper

Elliot B. Tapper is an American hepatologist at the University of Michigan who directs the Michigan Cirrhosis Program and is known for work on non-invasive liver fibrosis assessment.

Elliot Israel

Elliot Israel is an American pulmonary physician-scientist who directs asthma research at Brigham and Women's Hospital and led the PREPARE trial of as-needed inhaled corticosteroids.

Elliot Krane

Elliot J. Krane is an American pediatric anesthesiologist and pain-medicine specialist who led the Pain Management Service at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford from 1994 to 2023.

Elliot M. Frohman

Elliot M. Frohman is an American neurologist and neuroimmunologist specializing in multiple sclerosis, who founded the MS program at UT Southwestern and led its optical coherence tomography research.

Elliot S. Vesell

Elliot S. Vesell (1933–2018) was an American pharmacologist who founded and chaired the Department of Pharmacology at Penn State College of Medicine and helped establish pharmacogenetics through twin studies showing that drug response is inherited.

Elliott F. Osserman

Elliott F. Osserman was a physician-scientist in hematology and immunology at Columbia University whose 1959 review reframed multiple myeloma as one pattern of a single plasma-cell disease.

Elliott M. Antman

Elliott M. Antman is an American cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School whose drug trials reshaped heart-attack treatment; he led the American Heart Association in 2014-15.

Elliott M. Ross

Elliott M. Ross is an American biochemist and pharmacologist who helped discover the first G proteins and spent his faculty career at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas from 1981.

Elliott S. Fisher

Elliott S. Fisher is an American physician and health services researcher at Dartmouth, known for work on regional Medicare spending differences and accountable care organizations.

Elliott Vichinsky

Elliott Vichinsky is an American pediatric hematologist and UCSF professor who built Oakland's comprehensive sickle cell program and led phase 3 trials of voxelotor and l-glutamine.

Éloi Marijon

Éloi Marijon is a French cardiologist and electrophysiologist who heads cardiology at Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou in Paris and studies sudden cardiac death and rheumatic heart disease.

Eloise Giblett

Eloise Giblett (1921–2009) was an American physician and human geneticist who led the Puget Sound Blood Center in Seattle and showed that ADA deficiency causes immunodeficiency.

Els Goulmy

Els Goulmy, born in 1946, is a Dutch immunologist who identified the first human minor histocompatibility antigens at Leiden, shaping stem cell transplantation; she won the 2002 Spinoza Prize.

Elvin A. Kabat

Elvin A. Kabat (1914–2000) was an American immunochemist at Columbia University who first demonstrated that antibodies are gamma globulins and, with mentor Michael Heidelberger, founded quantitative immunochemistry; his antibody numbering system remains in use.

Elwin E. Fraley

Elwin E. Fraley (1934–2014) was an American urologic surgeon who led the University of Minnesota's urology department from 1969 to 1993, advanced testicular cancer care, and coined "endourology."

Elwyn Elias

Elwyn Elias is a British hepatologist and professor at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and the University of Birmingham, known for a 1988 New England Journal of Medicine study reporting poor sulfoxidation in primary biliary cirrhosis.

Elwyn L. Simons

Elwyn L. Simons (1930–2016) was an American vertebrate paleontologist known as the father of modern primate paleontology, who discovered Aegyptopithecus in Egypt's Fayum and led the Duke Primate Center.