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Frederick Twort
Frederick William Twort was a British bacteriologist who in 1915 first described the bacteria-killing agent later known as bacteriophage, and identified the growth factor behind vitamin K.
Frederik Barkhof
Frederik Barkhof is a Dutch neuroradiologist known for the Barkhof criteria, MRI findings used to diagnose multiple sclerosis, and professor at Amsterdam UMC and University College London.
Frederik C. Krebs
Frederik C. Krebs (born 1970) is a Danish chemist known for roll-to-roll manufacture of flexible polymer solar cells, who founded the printed-electronics company infinityPV.
Fredric E. Wondisford
Fredric E. Wondisford is an American physician-scientist in endocrinology and diabetes who has served as dean of the University of Arizona College of Medicine–Phoenix since 2023.
Fredric L. Coe
Fredric L. Coe is an American nephrologist at the University of Chicago known for kidney stone research, founding its Kidney Stone Evaluation and Treatment Program in 1969.
Fredrick C. Redlich
Fredrick C. Redlich, known as Fritz Redlich, was an Austrian-born American psychiatrist who led Yale's psychiatry department for 17 years and coauthored the classic study Social Class and Mental Illness.
Fredrick J. Stare
Fredrick J. Stare (1910–2002) was an American nutritionist and physician who founded and chaired Harvard's Department of Nutrition from 1942 to 1976, becoming a controversial figure in food-industry funding debates.
Fredrick Van Goor
Fredrick Van Goor is a Canadian-born cell biologist who, as head of cystic fibrosis research at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, led the biology behind five licensed CF medicines including Trikafta.
Fredros O Okumu
Fredros O Okumu, born in Kenya in 1981, is a Kenyan malaria researcher and professor at the University of Glasgow known for tools against outdoor-biting mosquitoes.
Freek W.A. Verheugt
Freek W.A. Verheugt is a Dutch cardiologist, emeritus professor of cardiology at Radboud University Medical Centre in Nijmegen, known for the ICTUS trial and anticoagulation research.
Friedrich Berthold Reinke
Friedrich Berthold Reinke was a German anatomist (1862–1919) who spent his career at the University of Rostock and gave his name to the Reinke space of the vocal fold and Reinke crystals.
Friedrich C. Luft
Friedrich C. Luft, born in Berlin in 1942, is a physician-scientist and professor at the Max Delbrück Center and Charité in Berlin, known for research on hypertension and nephrology.
Friedrich Fehleisen
Friedrich Fehleisen (1854–1924) was a German physician and surgeon who, working at Würzburg, isolated the erysipelas streptococcus in pure culture and proved experimentally that it causes the disease.
Friedrich Feyrter
Friedrich Feyrter (1895–1973) was an Austrian pathologist who proposed in 1938 that scattered hormone-producing cells form the diffuse endocrine system, and is called the Father of Neuroendocrinology.
Friedrich Grimminger
Friedrich Grimminger is a German pulmonary physician-scientist, professor of internal medicine at Justus Liebig University Giessen since 2003, known for the Giessen pharmacotherapy program in pulmonary hypertension.
Friedrich K. Port
Friedrich K. Port, also known as Friedrich Port or Fritz Port, is a German-born nephrologist and outcomes researcher known for large-scale studies of mortality in dialysis and transplant patients.
Friedrich Loeffler
Friedrich Loeffler (1852–1915) was a German bacteriologist who isolated the diphtheria bacillus in 1884 and, with Paul Frosch, showed in 1898 that foot-and-mouth disease was caused by the first animal virus.
Friedrich Philipp Ellinger
Friedrich Philipp Ellinger (1900–1962) was a German-American physician and radiation biologist who worked at the University of Berlin, moved to New York by 1941, and wrote influential textbooks on radiation therapy.
Friedrich W. Mohr
Friedrich W. Mohr, in full Friedrich Wilhelm Mohr, is a German cardiac surgeon who led the SYNTAX trial and directed cardiac surgery at the Leipzig Heart Center from 1994 to 2017.
Fritiof S. Sjöstrand
Fritiof S. Sjöstrand (Fritiof Stig Sjöstrand, 1912–2011) was a Swedish physician and histologist who pioneered biological electron microscopy at the Karolinska Institute before moving to UCLA in 1959.
Frits R. Rosendaal
Frits R. Rosendaal (born 1959) is a Dutch physician-scientist, professor of clinical epidemiology at Leiden University, known for identifying genetic and acquired causes of venous thrombosis.
Fritz H. Bach
Fritz H. Bach (1934–2011) was an American transplantation immunologist who enabled the first successful matched bone marrow transplants, helped define HLA class I and II antigens, and led the debate on xenotransplantation.
Fritz H. Schroder
Fritz H. Schröder is a German-born urologist who chaired urology at Erasmus University Rotterdam and initiated the European Randomized study of Screening for Prostate Cancer.
Fritz Juliusberg
Fritz Juliusberg (1872–1939) was a German dermatologist born in Breslau who first described pityriasis lichenoides chronica in 1899; he lost his license under the Nazis and died in Berlin in 1939.
Fritz Mietzsch
Fritz Mietzsch was a German chemist at IG Farben's Elberfeld works, later a Direktor at Bayer, who co-synthesized Prontosil in 1932 and helped prepare Atabrine, a quinine substitute.
Fritz R. Bühler
Fritz R. Bühler (1940–2017) was a Swiss cardiologist and hypertension researcher who built the hypertension division at University Hospital Basel and helped match blood-pressure drugs to patients.
Fuller Albright
Fuller Albright (1900–1969) was an American endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard who built the modern clinical study of calcium metabolism and metabolic bone disease, coining postmenopausal osteoporosis.
Fumiaki Marumo
Fumiaki Marumo (丸茂 文昭) is a Japanese nephrologist at Tokyo Medical and Dental University known for showing that urinary aquaporin-2 excretion indexes vasopressin action on the kidney.
Fumimaro Takaku
Fumimaro Takaku (髙久 史麿) was a Japanese physician-scientist in hematology known for colony-stimulating factor trials and oncogene studies in myelodysplastic syndrome; he died in 2022.
Funda Meric-Bernstam
Funda Meric-Bernstam is a physician-scientist and surgical oncologist who chairs Investigational Cancer Therapeutics, MD Anderson's Phase I program, known for antibody-drug conjugate trials and precision oncology.