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Freda K. Stevenson

Freda K. Stevenson, born in 1939, is a British immunologist and Emerita Professor at Southampton known for DNA fusion-gene vaccines against lymphoma and CLL immunogenetics.

Freddie Bray

Freddie Bray is a cancer epidemiologist who heads the Cancer Surveillance Branch at IARC in Lyon, France, and leads GLOBOCAN, the worldwide estimates of cancer incidence and mortality.

Freddie C. Hamdy

Freddie C. Hamdy is a British urological surgeon and prostate cancer researcher, chief investigator of the ProtecT trial, the largest trial of localized prostate cancer treatment.

Frédéric Amant

Frédéric Amant (born 1967) is a Belgian gynecologic oncologist who heads Gynecological Oncology at KU Leuven and founded INCIP, showing chemotherapy during pregnancy can be safe.

Frédéric B. Piel

Frédéric B. Piel is a spatial epidemiologist and Associate Professor at Imperial College London who maps the global health burden of sickle cell disease and other haemoglobinopathies.

Frederic C. Bartter

Frederic C. Bartter (1914–1983) was a Filipino-born American endocrinologist who described the salt-losing disorder Bartter syndrome and long led the hypertension endocrine branch at the NIH.

Frédéric J. Baud

Frédéric J. Baud (F. Baud) is a French clinical toxicologist and intensive care professor whose NEJM papers established antidotes and treatments for severe drug poisoning.

Frederic J. de Sauvage

Frederic J. de Sauvage is a Belgian molecular oncologist who co-cloned thrombopoietin in 1994, advanced Hedgehog pathway cancer research at Genentech, and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.

Frederic Lewy

Frederic Lewy, born Fritz Heinrich Jakob Lewy (1885–1950), was a German-American neurologist who in 1912 described the brain-cell inclusions in Parkinson's disease that other researchers named Lewy bodies after him.

Frédéric Martinon

Frédéric Martinon is a French immunology researcher whose 1993 paper was the first use of in vitro-transcribed mRNA as a vaccine, tested against influenza in mice.

Frederick C. Goetz

Frederick C. Goetz (1922–2012) was an American diabetologist at the University of Minnesota Medical School who directed the UGDP diabetes trial clinic and helped bring kidney and pancreas transplantation to diabetic patients.

Frederick E. Dewey

Frederick E. Dewey is a cardiologist and human geneticist who trained at Stanford and led translational genetics at the Regeneron Genetics Center, studying rare gene variants as drug targets.

Frederick Forchheimer

Frederick Forchheimer (1853–1913) was a Cincinnati physician who became a founder of American pediatrics, described Forchheimer spots in German measles in 1898, and edited the four-volume Therapeusis of Internal Diseases.

Frederick G. Hayden

Frederick G. Hayden is an American clinical virologist and emeritus professor at the University of Virginia who helped develop seven approved influenza antiviral drugs and co-edits Clinical Virology.

Frederick G. Zak

Frederick G. Zak, born Friedrich Zak, was an Austrian-born American pathologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, known for tumor pathology and the paraganglionic chemoreceptor system.

Frederick Griffith

Frederick Griffith (died 1941) was a British bacteriologist at the Ministry of Health's London laboratory who in 1928 reported bacterial transformation, the heritable change whose agent, identified as DNA in 1944, began molecular genetics.

Frederick K. Goodwin

Frederick K. Goodwin (1936–2020) was an American psychiatrist and psychopharmacology researcher who coauthored the standard textbook Manic-Depressive Illness, led NIMH, and championed lithium for bipolar disorder.

Frederick Korley

Frederick Korley, also known as Frederick Kofi Korley, is an American emergency physician-scientist at the University of Michigan known for traumatic brain injury blood biomarker research.

Frederick L. Altice

Frederick L. Altice is a Yale professor of medicine and epidemiology who has directed its HIV in Prisons Program since 1991, researching HIV, hepatitis, and tuberculosis in prisoners and people who inject drugs.

Frederick L. Brancati

Frederick L. Brancati was an American physician and epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins who specialized in preventing type 2 diabetes and directed its Division of General Internal Medicine until his 2013 death.

Frederick L. Ferris

Frederick L. Ferris is an American ophthalmologist who spent 35 years at the National Eye Institute leading landmark trials of diabetic retinopathy and macular degeneration treatment.

Frederick L. Locke

Frederick L. Locke is an American medical oncologist who treats lymphoma and multiple myeloma at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida, and led the ZUMA-1 and ZUMA-7 CAR T-cell trials.

Frederick M. Burkle Jr.

Frederick M. "Skip" Burkle Jr. is an American physician and founding figure in disaster medicine who served over 17 years at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.

Frederick P. Rivara

Frederick P. Rivara, born 1949, is an American pediatrician and injury-prevention researcher at the University of Washington who showed bicycle helmets reduce head injury by 85 percent.

Frederick Parkes Weber

Frederick Parkes Weber (1863–1962) was an English physician and dermatologist who spent fifty years at the German Hospital in Dalston, London, and lent his name to Sturge-Weber disease and Parkes Weber syndrome.

Frederick R. Appelbaum

Frederick R. Appelbaum is an American medical oncologist and executive vice president of Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle, known for pioneering stem cell transplantation for leukemia since 1978.

Frederick Raal

Frederick J. Raal is a South African endocrinologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, known for first-author trials of evolocumab, inclisiran, and evinacumab in familial hypercholesterolaemia.

Frederick Redlich

Frederick Redlich, known as Fritz, was an Austrian-born American psychiatrist who chaired Yale's psychiatry department and served as dean of its medical school from 1967 to 1972.

Frederick S. Jaffe

Frederick S. Jaffe (1925–1978) was an American family planning researcher who served as vice president of Planned Parenthood and first president of the Guttmacher Institute.

Frederick Stohlman

Frederick Stohlman was an American hematologist, professor of medicine at Tufts University, whose laboratory did much of the mid-century work establishing erythropoietin's role in red-cell production.