Medical and health researchers

Eric Tran

Eric Tran is a tumor immunologist who leads the Adoptive Cell Therapy Laboratory at Providence Cancer Institute in Portland, Oregon, and showed that T cells can attack KRAS-mutant cancers.

Éric Van Belle

Éric Van Belle (born 1964) is a French interventional cardiologist who directs interventional cardiology at Lille University Hospital and is known for von Willebrand factor research.

Eric Van Cutsem

Eric Van Cutsem is a Belgian medical oncologist and gastroenterologist who heads the Division of Digestive Oncology at University Hospitals Leuven, known for cetuximab trials in colorectal cancer.

Eric Verdin is a Belgian-born physician-scientist studying how metabolism drives aging, known for sirtuin and NAD+ research and as president and CEO of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging since 2016.

Sep 17, 2026

Erica E. Marsh

Erica E. Marsh is an American reproductive endocrinologist at the University of Michigan, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2024 for fibroids research.

Erich Franz Eugen Bracht

Erich Franz Eugen Bracht (1882–1969) was a German pathologist and gynecologist remembered for the Bracht maneuver, a 1935 technique for vaginal breech delivery that cut fetal mortality.

Erich Lexer

Erich Lexer (1867–1937) was a German surgeon who performed the first human whole-joint transplants, wrote standard works on transplantation, and is regarded as a father of plastic surgery.

Erich Rominger

Erich Rominger (1886–1967) was a German pediatrician and professor who held the pediatrics chair at Kiel from 1925 to 1954, researching rickets, anemia, and infant metabolism.

Erik Adolf von Willebrand

Erik Adolf von Willebrand (1870–1949) was a Finnish internist who in 1926 described an inherited bleeding disorder among Åland island families, now called von Willebrand disease.

Erik Godtfredsen

Erik Godtfredsen (1913–1993) was a Danish ophthalmologist at Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen, whose 454-case study of malignant nasopharyngeal tumors identified the combined sixth and twelfth cranial nerve palsy known as Godtfredsen syndrome.

Erik Johan Widmark

Erik Johan Widmark (1850–1909) was a Swedish ophthalmologist and first professor of eye medicine at the Karolinska Institutet, whose 1889 ultraviolet experiments underpinned Finsen's 1903 Nobel Prize.

Erik Jorpes

Erik Jorpes, born Johan Erik Johansson (1894–1973), was a Finnish-born Swedish biochemist at Karolinska Institutet who determined heparin's chemistry, made it a clinical anticoagulant, and purified secretin and cholecystokinin.

Erik K. Alexander

Erik K. Alexander is an American endocrinologist who is Chief of the Thyroid Section at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Erik L. Hewlett

Erik L. Hewlett is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist and Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the University of Virginia, known for over 40 years of research on Bordetella pertussis toxins.

Erik S.G. Stroes

Erik S.G. Stroes is a Dutch vascular internist and professor of Vascular Medicine at Amsterdam UMC, known for antisense trials in lipidology and hereditary angioedema.

Sep 17, 2026

Erika Wolf

Erika J. Wolf is an American clinical research psychologist and Principal Investigator at the National Center for PTSD, VA Boston, known for research on genetic and environmental contributors to PTSD.

Erin A. Bohula

Erin A. Bohula is an American critical care cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, known for leading the CAMELLIA-TIMI 61 and VESALIUS-CV trials.

Erkki Ruoslahti

Erkki Ruoslahti, born 1940 in Imatra, Finland, is a cancer biologist who co-discovered fibronectin, discovered the RGD cell attachment sequence, helped isolate integrins, and won the 2022 Lasker Award.

Ernest B. Hook

Ernest B. Hook is an American medical geneticist and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, known for proposing terathanasia and studying fetal deaths among chromosomally abnormal fetuses.

Ernest Basil Verney

Ernest Basil Verney (1894–1967) was a British physiologist and pharmacologist who demonstrated continuous secretion of antidiuretic hormone and introduced the osmoreceptor concept in his 1947 Croonian Lecture.

Ernest Beutler

Ernest Beutler (1928–2008) was a German-born American hematologist and physician-scientist who chaired medicine at City of Hope and led research at Scripps, transforming treatment of Gaucher disease and G6PD deficiency.

Ernest Craige

Ernest Craige (1918–2008) was an American cardiologist and first chief of the Division of Cardiology at UNC Chapel Hill, known for New England Journal of Medicine studies on heart sounds and echocardiography.

Ernest Dupré

Ernest Dupré (1862–1921) was a French psychiatrist and forensic physician who coined mythomanie and puérilisme mental, ending his career in the chair of mental diseases at Sainte-Anne.

Ernest Edward Tyzzer

Ernest Edward Tyzzer (1875–1965) was an American physician and pathologist at Harvard Medical School, known for discovering Tyzzer's disease, foundational work on bird parasites, and early tumor-immunity research.

Ernest Fourneau

Ernest Fourneau (1872–1949) was a French pharmacist and chemist who founded therapeutic chemistry in France, designing the anesthetic Stovaïne and directing drug research at the Institut Pasteur.

Ernest Jawetz

Ernest Jawetz was an Austrian-born American physician and microbiologist at UCSF, born in Vienna in 1916, known for antibiotic combination testing and a long-running microbiology textbook.

Ernest Kennaway

Sir Ernest Laurence Kennaway (1881–1958) was a British experimental pathologist in London who identified the first pure chemical carcinogens, including benzo(a)pyrene, isolated from coal tar in 1933.

Ernest L. Wynder

Ernest L. Wynder (1922–1999) was a German-born American epidemiologist who co-authored the landmark 1950 JAMA study linking cigarette smoking to lung cancer and founded the American Health Foundation.

Ernest Starling

Ernest Henry Starling was a British physiologist who held the Jodrell chair at University College London, discovered secretin in 1902, coined hormone, and formulated the law of the heart.