Medical and health researchers

Frank Norman Wilson

Frank Norman Wilson (1890–1952) was an American cardiologist at the University of Michigan who created the Wilson central terminal and the precordial lead system underlying the modern 12-lead electrocardiogram.

Frank Plummer

Frank Plummer, born Francis Allan Plummer, was a Canadian microbiologist whose study of HIV-resistant Nairobi sex workers shaped vaccine research; he led Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory.

Frank Ruschitzka

Frank Ruschitzka is a cardiologist who directs the Clinic for Cardiology at University Hospital Zurich and is a professor of cardiology at the University of Zurich, specializing in heart failure and heart transplantation.

Frank Shann

Frank Shann is an Australian pediatric intensivist and vaccine researcher at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, known for childhood pneumonia research in Papua New Guinea and vaccine non-specific effects.

Frank Tacke

Frank Tacke is a German hepatologist who became head of hepatology and gastroenterology at Charité Berlin in 2019, known for research on liver macrophages and for coordinating EASL clinical guidelines.

Frank W. Crowe

Frank W. Crowe (1919–1987) was an American dermatologist in Boise, Idaho, first author of the 1956 monograph establishing autosomal dominant inheritance of neurofibromatosis and the café-au-lait diagnostic counts.

Frank W. Fitch

Frank W. Fitch (1929–2021) was an American immunologist at the University of Chicago who pioneered T cell cloning and subsets, and made the first anti-mouse CD4 monoclonal antibody.

Frank Winkler

Frank Winkler is a German neurologist and neuroscientist at Heidelberg University who helped establish cancer neuroscience through discoveries about brain tumor networks, winning the 2025 Brain Prize.

Franklin H. Epstein

Franklin H. Epstein, also known as F H Epstein, was an American nephrologist at Harvard and Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, called one of the fathers of nephrology.

Frans Van de Werf

Frans Van de Werf is a Belgian cardiologist, emeritus professor at the University of Leuven, who pioneered thrombolytic therapy for heart attacks and led major international trials.

Franz H. Messerli

Franz H. Messerli, born 1942, is a Swiss-born cardiologist and hypertension researcher who led hypertension programs in New Orleans and New York and argued against beta-blockers as first-line therapy.

Franz Hofmann

Franz Hofmann (born 1942) is a German pharmacologist known for work on cyclic nucleotide-dependent protein kinases and voltage-gated calcium channels, and professor at TU Munich from 1990 to 2008.

Franz J. Ingelfinger

Franz J. Ingelfinger (1910–1980) was a German-born American gastroenterologist at Boston University who edited the New England Journal of Medicine and created the Ingelfinger rule in 1969.

Franz Josef Kallmann

Franz Josef Kallmann (1897–1965) was a German-American psychiatrist who fled Germany in 1936, led psychiatric genetics research in New York, proposed a recessive-gene model of schizophrenia, and described Kallmann syndrome.

Franz König

Franz König (1832–1910) was a German surgeon who held chairs of surgery at Rostock, Göttingen, and the Charité in Berlin, edited the Centralblatt für Chirurgie for thirty years, and named osteochondritis dissecans.

Franz Nissl

Franz Nissl (1860–1919) was a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist who, as a medical student in 1884, invented the Nissl stain, revealing Nissl bodies and underpinning Brodmann's cortical map.

Franz Oesch

Franz Oesch, born 1938 in Zurich, is a Swiss pharmacologist and toxicologist known for his work on epoxide hydrolases, enzymes that handle reactive metabolites of chemical carcinogens.

Franz Schaefer

Franz Schaefer, born 1961 in Aschaffenburg, Germany, is a pediatric nephrologist who heads the pediatric nephrology division at Heidelberg University Hospital and led the ESCAPE Trial.

Franz Volhard

Franz Volhard (1872–1950) was a German internist regarded as a father of modern nephrology and hypertension research, who replaced Bright's disease with a three-part classification of kidney disease and introduced salt restriction.

Franz–Josef Neumann

Franz–Josef Neumann is a German interventional cardiologist who directed cardiology at the Heart Centre Bad Krozingen from 2001 to 2022 and chaired the 2018 ESC/EACTS revascularization guidelines.

Frauke Zipp

Frauke Zipp is a German neurologist and neuroimmunologist, professor and director of neurology at University Medical Center Mainz since 2009, known for multiple sclerosis research.

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Fred Gilbert Jr.

Fred Ivan Gilbert Jr. (1920–1995) was a Hawaii internist and epidemiologist at Straub Clinic who founded the Pacific Health Research Institute in 1960 and directed it for 32 years.

Fred Morady

Fred Morady is an American cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist who directed the electrophysiology laboratory at the University of Michigan from 1984 to 2004 and helped shape modern arrhythmia treatment.

Fred Neufeld

Fred Neufeld (1869–1945) was a German bacteriologist who directed the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin from 1917 to 1933 and established pneumococcal serotyping, the Quellung reaction, and the bile solubility test.

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Fred Plum

Fred Plum (1924–2010) was an American neurologist who helped coin "persistent vegetative state" and "locked-in syndrome", and wrote The Diagnosis of Stupor and Coma with Jerome Posner.

Fred Poordad

Fred Poordad is an American hepatologist at UT Health San Antonio and the Texas Liver Institute who led pivotal hepatitis C trials, including the 2011 SPRINT-2 boceprevir study.

Fred R. Hirsch

Fred R. Hirsch is a medical oncologist and lung cancer researcher who leads the Center for Thoracic Oncology at Mount Sinai and studies EGFR and PD-L1 biomarkers.

Fred Rosner

Fred Rosner (1935 to 2024) was an American physician, board certified in hematology, who became an internationally known authority on Jewish medical ethics, and a professor of medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Fred S. Rosen

Fred S. Rosen (1930–2005) was an American pediatric immunologist at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital who defined the modern understanding of primary immunodeficiencies.