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Folke Sjöqvist
Folke Sjöqvist (1933–2020) was a Swedish clinical pharmacologist who became Sweden's first professor of clinical pharmacology and pioneered pharmacogenetics, showing genetic causes of 30-fold differences in antidepressant drug levels.
Fortunato Ciardiello
Fortunato Ciardiello, born in Naples in 1960, is an Italian medical oncologist and professor at the University of Campania whose work established RAS mutation testing before anti-EGFR therapy in colorectal cancer.
Fowzan S. Alkuraya
Fowzan S. Alkuraya is a Saudi human geneticist, Professor of Human Genetics at Alfaisal University, known for defining the autozygome and discovering human knockout genes.
Frances A. Shepherd
Frances A. Shepherd is a Canadian medical oncologist and lung cancer clinical-trials researcher at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, known for the 2005 BR.21 erlotinib and JBR.10 trials.
Frances Eileen Carr
Frances Eileen Carr is an American molecular endocrinologist and Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Vermont, known for research on thyroid hormone receptors in cancer.
Frances Elizabeth Jensen
Frances Elizabeth Jensen is an American neurologist and Chair of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania, known for research on epilepsy, the developing brain, and authoring The Teenage Brain.
Frances M. Ashcroft
Frances M. Ashcroft is a British physiologist at Oxford whose work on KATP channels explained insulin secretion and let neonatal diabetes patients switch from insulin to tablets.
Frances R. Balkwill
Frances R. Balkwill, known as Fran Balkwill, is a British cancer researcher and Professor at Queen Mary University of London who studies cancer-related inflammation, especially in ovarian cancer.
Francesc Graus
Francesc Graus is a Spanish neurologist and neuro-oncologist at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona whose research on paraneoplastic syndromes and autoimmune encephalitis helped establish autoimmune neurology as a subspecialty.
Francesco Cosentino
Francesco Cosentino is an Italian-born cardiologist and professor of clinical cardiovascular research at Karolinska Institutet, chair of the 2019 ESC diabetes guidelines and ESC vice-president.
Francesco P. Cappuccio
Francesco P. Cappuccio is a British-based Italian physician-scientist at the University of Warwick, known for research on dietary salt, blood pressure, and sleep as a cardiovascular risk factor.
Francesco Pentimalli
Francesco Pentimalli (1885–1958) was an Italian pathologist and university professor known for experimental oncology, especially viral transmission of fowl sarcoma, and was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize.
Francesco Rubino
Francesco Rubino is an Italian surgeon and researcher, Professor of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery at King's College London, known for trials establishing surgery as a type 2 diabetes treatment.
Francesco Violi
Francesco Violi is an Italian professor of internal medicine at Sapienza University of Rome, retired in 2020, known for research linking gut bacterial molecules to heart attack and stroke risk.
Francine Benes
Francine Mary Benes is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital, known for showing that schizophrenia involves measurable changes in inhibitory GABA neurons.
Francine Grodstein
Francine Grodstein is an epidemiologist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago who studies cognitive aging in women and directed the Nurses' Health Study until 2019.
Francis A. Plummer
Francis A. Plummer, known as Frank Plummer, was a Canadian HIV/AIDS researcher who led the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg and identified HIV-resistant sex workers in Nairobi.
Francis Brambell
Francis William Rogers Brambell (1901–1970) was an Irish-born medical scientist and zoologist, professor at Bangor, who discovered how mothers transfer passive immunity to their young.
Francis C. Wood
Francis C. Wood, also known as Francis Carter Wood, was an American pathologist and cancer researcher who directed Columbia's Crocker cancer research fund from 1912 to 1940.
Francis D. Moore
Francis D. Moore (1913–2001) was an American surgeon who led surgery at Harvard's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and founded the scientific study of surgical metabolic care.
Francis E. Marchlinski
Francis E. Marchlinski is an American cardiac electrophysiologist who directs electrophysiology at the University of Pennsylvania and is known for developing substrate-based catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia.
Francis Gilman Blake
Francis Gilman Blake (1887–1952) was an American physician and immunologist, Sterling Professor of Medicine at Yale, known for demonstrating the viral cause of measles and directing early tests of penicillin.
Francis J. Doyle III
Francis J. Doyle III is an American control engineer known for the artificial pancreas and for serving as dean of Harvard SEAS and provost of Brown University.
Francis J. Klocke
Francis J. Klocke is an American cardiologist and professor emeritus at Northwestern University, founding director of its cardiovascular research institute and a past president of the American College of Cardiology.
Francis M. Giardiello
Francis M. Giardiello, also known as Francis Giardiello, is a gastroenterologist and physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine known for his research on hereditary gastrointestinal cancer, especially familial adenomatous polyposis.
Francis M. Rackemann
Francis Minot Rackemann (1887–1973) was an American physician and allergist who led the allergy clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital and classified asthma into extrinsic and intrinsic forms, a distinction still used in research.
Francis S. Lee
Francis S. Lee is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Weill Cornell Medicine who studies the molecular basis of mood and anxiety disorders, and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2016.
Francis V. Chisari
Francis V. Chisari, known as Frank Chisari, is an American virologist and immunologist at The Scripps Research Institute who defined how the immune system clears hepatitis B and C.
Francis Xavier Dercum
Francis Xavier Dercum (1856–1931) was an American neurologist in Philadelphia who identified adiposis dolorosa, the painful fat disorder still called Dercum's disease, and treated President Woodrow Wilson.
Francisca Mutapi
Francisca Mutapi is a Zimbabwean medical researcher and professor at the University of Edinburgh whose work on schistosomiasis opened treatment to 50 million African preschool children.