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George R. Siber

George R. Siber is a Canadian-trained physician-scientist and vaccinologist who led development of childhood vaccines against pneumococcus and Hib, winning the 2016 Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal.

George R. Stark

George R. Stark (born 1933) is an American biochemist and National Academy of Sciences member whose laboratory named the Northern blot and helped discover the JAK-STAT pathway.

George S. Alexopoulos

George S. Alexopoulos is an American psychiatrist and Professor Emeritus at Weill Cornell Medical College, known for the Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia and the vascular depression hypothesis.

George S. Kurland

George S. Kurland was an American cardiologist and clinical investigator at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, known for inducing hypothyroidism with radioactive iodine to treat severe heart disease.

George Sachs

George Sachs (1935–2019) was an Austrian-born physician-scientist who trained in Edinburgh, identified the gastric proton pump at UCLA, and helped develop omeprazole, the first proton pump inhibitor.

George V. Mann

George V. Mann (1917–2013) was an American physician and biochemist at Vanderbilt whose Maasai field studies and 1977 editorial "Diet-Heart: End of an Era" made him a leading critic of the diet-heart hypothesis.

George Van Smith

George Van Siclen Smith (1900–1984) was an American gynecology researcher who spent his career at Harvard Medical School and the Free Hospital for Women in Boston.

George W. Sledge

George W. Sledge is an American medical oncologist who spent 30 years at Indiana University, led the TAILORx and MONARCH 2 breast cancer trials, and served as ASCO president.

George W. Thorn

George W. Thorn (1906–2004) was an American endocrinologist, Hersey Professor at Harvard and Physician-in-Chief at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, known for treating Addison's disease.

George Watt (physician)

George Watt is a United States Army physician and infectious disease researcher at AFRIMS in Bangkok, known for clinical trials on scrub typhus treatment in northern Thailand.

Georges Bourguignon

Georges Bourguignon (1876–1963) was a French physician and neurophysiologist who first applied chronaxie to human subjects, building clinical electrodiagnosis at the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris.

Georges de Morsier

Georges de Morsier (1894–1982) was a Swiss neurologist in Geneva who created Switzerland's first hospital neurology unit and is remembered for de Morsier syndrome, the older name for septo-optic dysplasia.

Georges Köhler

Georges Köhler (1946–1995) was a German immunologist who co-developed the hybridoma technique for monoclonal antibodies and shared the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Georgina V. Long

Georgina V. Long is an Australian medical oncologist and melanoma researcher, Medical Director of Melanoma Institute Australia and a professor at the University of Sydney, named 2024 Australian of the Year.

Georgios Cotzias

Georgios Cotzias (1918–1977) was a Greek-born American physician and National Academy of Sciences member whose high-dose oral L-DOPA treatment reversed Parkinsonism, a milestone in neurology.

Georgios P. Chrousos

Georgios P. Chrousos is a Greek pediatric endocrinologist, born in Patras in 1951, known for work on the HPA axis, glucocorticoid resistance, and the stress system, and elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Gerald B. Appel

Gerald B. Appel is an American nephrologist at Columbia University, Co-Director of Clinical Nephrology, who directs its Glomerular Kidney Disease Center and led a 2005 NEJM lupus nephritis trial.

Gerald Cohen

Gerald Cohen (1930–2001) was an American researcher in New York who studied free radicals, ethanol toxicity, and catecholamine neurotoxins, and linked oxidative stress to Parkinson's disease.

Gerald F. Watts

Gerald F. Watts is an Australian professor of cardiometabolic medicine at the University of Western Australia, known for the 1992 STARS trial and RNAi lipid-lowering therapies.

Gerald Friedland

Gerald Friedland is an American infectious-diseases physician and HIV/AIDS researcher at Yale since 1991, known for defining AIDS progression in drug users and reporting South Africa's XDR TB outbreak.

Gerald I. Shulman

Gerald I. Shulman is an American physician-scientist at Yale School of Medicine who pioneered magnetic resonance spectroscopy to study glucose and fat metabolism in living humans.

Gerald J. Gleich

Gerald J. Gleich is an American allergist and immunologist known for his research on eosinophils and for Gleich's syndrome, named after him; he led laboratories at the Mayo Clinic and the University of Utah.

Gerald Joyce

Gerald F. Joyce is an American biochemist and origin-of-life researcher who is President of the Salk Institute, known for in vitro evolution and the first DNA enzymes.

Gerald Klatskin

Gerald Klatskin (1910–1986) was an American hepatologist at Yale School of Medicine known for the Klatskin tumor, a bile duct cancer at the hepatic duct bifurcation.

Gerald Klerman

Gerald L. Klerman (1928–1992), American psychiatrist, co-developer of interpersonal psychotherapy with Myrna Weissman, designer of the NIMH TDCRP, ADAMHA administrator 1977–1980, and coiner of "neo-Kraepelinian".

Gerald L. Andriole

Gerald L. Andriole is an American urologic oncologist who led the PLCO prostate cancer screening trial and the REDUCE prevention trial, and was chief of urologic surgery at Washington University.

Gerald L. Logue

Gerald L. Logue was an American hematologist and professor of medicine who led the University at Buffalo's hematology division from 1982 until his death in 2015, aged 73.

Gerald L. Mandell

Gerald Lee Mandell (1936–2023) was an American infectious diseases physician-scientist at the University of Virginia who founded its infectious diseases division and edited the specialty's standard textbook.

Gerald M. Pohost

Gerald M. Pohost is an American physician-scientist in nuclear cardiology and cardiovascular MRI, known for pioneering thallium-201 imaging of ischemia and a professor at USC since 2001.

Gerald M. Reaven

Gerald M. Reaven, also known as G. M. Reaven, was an American physician-scientist at Stanford who established insulin resistance's role in disease and coined Syndrome X.