Medical and health researchers

Gerald N. Wogan

Gerald N. Wogan (1930–2021) was an MIT toxicologist who established aflatoxin, a mold-produced food contaminant, as a cause of liver cancer and shaped FDA aflatoxin limits.

Gerald P. Rodnan

Gerald P. Rodnan (1927–1983) was an American physician-scientist at the University of Pittsburgh, the leading authority of his era on scleroderma and originator of the Rodnan skin score.

Gerald S. Berenson

Gerald S. Berenson (1922–2018) was an American cardiologist at Tulane and LSU who founded the Bogalusa Heart Study, a biracial cohort showing atherosclerosis begins in childhood.

Gerald Salen (1935–2020) was an American gastroenterologist and lipid metabolism researcher in New Jersey who defined cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis, sitosterolemia, and Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome, and pioneered chenodeoxycholic acid treatment.

Gerald Schiffman

Gerald Schiffman, published as G. Schiffman, is an immunologist at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn known for his work on antibody responses to pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccines.

Gerald T. Keusch

Gerald T. Keusch, born 1938, is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist who directed the NIH Fogarty International Center and studied Shiga toxins and bacterial diarrheal disease.

Gerald W. Smetana

Gerald W. Smetana is an American general internist and Harvard Medical School professor known for preoperative pulmonary risk stratification, including a 1999 NEJM review and a 2006 ACP systematic review.

Gerald Weissmann

Gerald Weissmann (1930–2019) was an Austrian-born American physician-scientist at New York University who codiscovered and named liposomes, advanced lysosome research, and founded its rheumatology division.

Gerard B. Odell

Gerard B. Odell (1925–1994) was an American pediatrician known for research on bilirubin metabolism and neonatal jaundice, who led pediatrics at the Medical College of Virginia and gastroenterology at Wisconsin–Madison.

Gerard C. Grosveld

Gerard C. Grosveld, also known as Gerard Grosveld, is a molecular hematologist at St. Jude known for mapping the bcr-abl fusion in chronic myeloid leukemia.

Gérard Friedlander

Gérard Friedlander, born in Paris in 1952, is a French physician-scientist in renal physiology known for work on kidney phosphate transport and chronic kidney disease.

Gerard J. Criner

Gerard J. Criner is an American pulmonologist, founding chair of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery at Temple University, known for leading COPD trials including STATCOPE and benralizumab studies.

Gerard Karsenty

Gerard Karsenty is a physician-scientist who chairs Genetics and Development at Columbia University, known for establishing that bone is an endocrine organ via osteocalcin, which regulates glucose homeostasis, male fertility, and cognition.

Gérard M. London

Gérard M. London is a French nephrology researcher at Hôpital Manhès, Fleury-Mérogis, known for establishing arterial stiffness as an independent predictor of mortality in dialysis patients.

Gerard N. Burrow

Gerard Noel Burrow (1933–2013) was an American endocrinologist and expert on thyroid disease in pregnancy who served as the 14th dean of the Yale School of Medicine.

Oct 10, 2026

Gérard Orth

Gérard Orth (1936–2023) was a French virologist and veterinarian at the Institut Pasteur who pioneered HPV cancer research and discovered the first human genes underlying warts.

Gèrard Socié

Gérard Socié is a French professor of hematology at Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris, known for research on stem cell transplantation, graft-versus-host disease, and secondary cancers.

Oct 22, 2026

Gerard van Swieten

Gerard van Swieten (1700–1772) was a Dutch physician who left Leiden for Vienna, became personal physician and trusted councillor to Empress Maria Theresa, and founded the First Vienna Medical School.

Gerd Assmann

Gerd Assmann is a German clinical chemist and atherosclerosis researcher, professor at the University of Münster, known for initiating and leading the PROCAM cardiovascular risk study.

Gerd Hasenfuß

Gerd Hasenfuß, born 1955 in Kehl, is a German cardiologist who led cardiology at Universitätsmedizin Göttingen from 1998 to 2024 and studied calcium handling in heart failure.

Gerd Heusch

Gerd Heusch is a German physician-scientist in cardiology, emeritus professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen and president of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences since 2025.

Gerd R Burmester

Gerd R. Burmester (Gerd-Rüdiger Burmester, born 1953) is a German rheumatologist and clinical immunologist who directed rheumatology at Charité Berlin from 1993 to 2022 and served as president of EULAR from 2015 to 2017.

Gerd Walz

Gerd Walz, born 1957, is a German nephrologist who led the Renal Division at the University of Freiburg from 1999 to 2026 and studies polycystic kidney disease.

Geremia B. Bolli

Geremia B. Bolli, born 1947, is an Italian endocrinologist at the University of Perugia known for 1984 New England Journal of Medicine papers on the dawn phenomenon.

Oct 10, 2026

Gerhard Armauer Hansen

Gerhard Armauer Hansen (1841–1912) was a Norwegian physician in Bergen who discovered the leprosy bacillus in 1873, the first microorganism shown to cause a chronic human disease.

Gerhard Christofori

Gerhard Christofori is a molecular and cancer biologist and professor emeritus at the University of Basel, known for showing that E-cadherin loss drives malignant progression and metastasis.

Gerhard Domagk

Gerhard Domagk was a German pathologist and bacteriologist who discovered the antibacterial effects of the red dye prontosil, opening the sulfonamide era of antibacterial chemotherapy.

Gerhard Levy

Gerhard Levy (1928–2017) was a German-born American pharmaceutics scientist and pioneer of pharmacokinetics who taught at the University at Buffalo from 1958 to 2000.

Gerhard Opelz

Gerhard Opelz is an Austrian transplantation immunologist who led transplantation immunology at the University of Heidelberg from 1981 to 2015 and founded the Collaborative Transplant Study in 1982.