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Ferdinand Engelhart

Ferdinand Engelhart was a pharmacologist in Otto Loewi's institute at Graz who in 1930 and 1931 proved acetylcholine release in the eye during pupillary contraction.

Ferdinand Hueppe

Ferdinand Hueppe (1852–1938) was a German bacteriologist and hygienist, professor at the German University in Prague, and the first president of the German Football Association, 1900 to 1904.

Ferdinand-Jean Darier

Ferdinand-Jean Darier (1856–1938) was a French dermatologist and pathologist who served at the Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris from 1909 to 1922 and first described Darier's disease in 1889, along with several other skin conditions.

Fergus Shanahan

Fergus Shanahan is an Irish gastroenterologist and mucosal immunologist, Professor Emeritus at University College Cork and founding director of APC Microbiome Ireland, a microbiome research center.

Ferid Murad

Ferid Murad (1936–2023) was an Albanian-American physician and pharmacologist who discovered that nitric oxide signals in the cardiovascular system, winning the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Fernando C. Fervenza

Fernando C. Fervenza, also published as Fernando Fervenza, is a Brazilian-trained nephrologist and Mayo Clinic professor who led the MENTOR trial of rituximab for membranous nephropathy.

Fernando Cabanillas

Fernando Cabanillas is a Puerto Rican medical oncologist specializing in lymphoma, known for developing the MIME, DHAP, and ESHAP salvage regimens and curative approaches to indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Fernando Camargo

Fernando D. Camargo is a stem cell biologist and professor at Harvard University and Boston Children's Hospital, known for Hippo pathway and blood stem cell research.

Fernando D. Martínez

Fernando D. Martínez is a Chilean-born American pediatric pulmonologist and asthma researcher at the University of Arizona, where he directs the Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center.

Fernando J. Martínez

Fernando J. Martínez is a Cuban-born pulmonary physician-scientist known for research on COPD and interstitial lung disease, and editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Fernando P. Polack

Fernando P. Polack is an Argentine pediatric infectious disease researcher at Vanderbilt University known for RSV research and leading the Pfizer–BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine trial in Argentina.

Field C. Leonard

Field C. Leonard (Field Case Leonard) was an American vascular surgeon in Springfield, Massachusetts, who published New England Journal of Medicine papers on arterial embolectomy between 1950 and 1954.

Filip Swirski

Filip Swirski is a Polish-born immunologist known for work on monocytes and macrophages in atherosclerosis; since 2021 he has directed the Cardiovascular Research Institute at Mount Sinai in New York.

Filippo Crea

Filippo Crea, born in Cosenza, Italy, in 1953, is an Italian cardiologist known for establishing that ischemic heart disease involves the coronary microcirculation, not only large-artery narrowing.

Filippo Giancotti

Filippo G. Giancotti (1958–2023) was an Italian-born cancer biologist known for work on integrin signaling and metastatic dormancy, holding posts at Sloan Kettering, MD Anderson, and Columbia.

Filippo Pietrantonio

Filippo Pietrantonio is an Italian medical oncologist who heads gastrointestinal oncology at the Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori in Milan, known for the CodeBreaK 300 trial in KRAS G12C-mutated colorectal cancer.

Finlay A. McAlister

Finlay A. McAlister is a Canadian general internist and clinical researcher at the University of Alberta, known for outcomes research in heart failure, hypertension, and coronary artery disease.

Fiona M. Gribble

Fiona M. Gribble is Professor of Endocrine Physiology at the University of Cambridge, where she studies gut hormones including GLP-1 and GIP, the hormones behind semaglutide and tirzepatide.

Flavio Vincenti

Flavio Vincenti is a transplant nephrologist at the University of California, San Francisco, on the faculty since 1976, known for clinical trials of belatacept and a past president of the American Society of Transplantation.

Flora E. van Leeuwen

Flora E. van Leeuwen, known in the Netherlands as Floor van Leeuwen, is a Dutch cancer epidemiologist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam who has researched cancer risk factors there since 1981.

Flora Peyvandi

Flora Peyvandi is an Italian hematologist at the University of Milan who led the SIPPET and HERCULES trials and served as ISTH President from 2022 to 2024.

Florence Pat Haseltine

Florence Pat Haseltine is an American physician-scientist in reproductive endocrinology who founded the Society for Women's Health Research in 1990 and the Journal of Women's Health in 1992.

Florence R. Sabin

Florence R. Sabin was an American anatomist who became the first woman full professor at Johns Hopkins and pioneered research on the lymphatic system and tuberculosis.

Florence Wong

Florence Wong is a hepatologist and professor of medicine at the University of Toronto who researches decompensated cirrhosis and led the 2021 CONFIRM trial of terlipressin.

Florian Bassermann

Florian Bassermann is a German physician-scientist in hematology and oncology who studies ubiquitin-dependent signaling in cancer, directing Internal Medicine III at TUM's Klinikum rechts der Isar since 2017.

Florian Krammer

Florian Krammer is a virologist and vaccinologist, the Mount Sinai Professor of Vaccinology since 2019, known for a universal influenza vaccine candidate tested in humans.

Florian Lordick

Florian Lordick is a German medical oncologist specializing in gastro-esophageal cancer who directs the University Cancer Center Leipzig, led the 2025 ESOPEC trial, and chairs ESMO's gastric cancer guideline group.

Florian R. Greten

Florian R. Greten, born 1972, is a physician-scientist in oncology known for linking the NF-κB pathway to intestinal tumorigenesis; he has directed Frankfurt's Georg-Speyer-Haus since 2013.

Floyd W. Denny

Floyd W. Denny, Jr. was an American pediatrician and infectious-disease researcher who chaired pediatrics at UNC Chapel Hill for twenty years and defined the epidemiology of childhood respiratory infections.

Folke Henschen

Folke Henschen (1881–1977) was a Swedish pathologist and anatomist, professor of pathological anatomy at the Karolinska Institutet from 1920 to 1946, who described Morgagni's syndrome and initiated Swedish geriatrics research.