Medical and health researchers

Gerhard Steinbeck

Gerhard Steinbeck, born 1946 in Göttingen, is a German cardiologist known for trials on arrhythmias and risk stratification after myocardial infarction, including the IRIS trial.

Gerhardt Attard is a medical oncologist, Professor at University College London, and Director of the UCL Cancer Institute since 2024, known for circulating tumor DNA research and abiraterone development in advanced prostate cancer.

Gerold Bepler

Gerold Bepler is a German-educated thoracic oncologist specializing in lung cancer, known for research on RRM1 and ERCC1 as biomarkers for non-small-cell lung cancer treatment.

Gerrit Grijns

Gerrit Grijns (1865–1944) was a Dutch physiologist who, working in Batavia from 1896, first clearly stated that foods contain substances needed to protect the nervous system, the vitamin concept.

Sep 17, 2026

Gertjan Medema

Gertjan Medema is a Dutch water microbiologist at KWR Water Research Institute and TU Delft, known for pioneering wastewater-based epidemiology and winning the 2024 Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize.

Gertrud Hurler

Gertrud Hurler, née Zach (1889–1965), was a German pediatrician in Munich whose 1920 paper gave the first widely cited description of Hurler syndrome, the severe form of MPS I.

Gertrude B. Elion

Gertrude B. Elion was an American biochemist and pharmacologist who designed drugs from nucleic acid metabolism at Burroughs Wellcome, sharing the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Gertrude Henle

Gertrude Henle (1912–2006) was a German American virologist who, with her husband Werner, proved Epstein-Barr virus causes infectious mononucleosis and linked it to Burkitt lymphoma and nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

Gervasio A. Lamas

Gervasio A. Lamas is a cardiologist who chairs medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach and led the MOST, SAVE PACe, and TACT trials.

Sep 17, 2026

Gery Guy

Gery P. Guy is an American health economist at the CDC's Division of Overdose Prevention who studies prescription drug dispensing and the costs of substance use and overdose.

Géza Mansfeld

Géza Mansfeld was a Hungarian physician and pharmacologist, born 1882 and died 1950, who trained two future Nobel laureates and was nominated for the 1928 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Ghassan K. Abou‐Alfa

Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa is a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who specializes in primary liver cancer and led the CELESTIAL cabozantinib trial.

Giacomo Rizzolatti

Giacomo Rizzolatti is an Italian neuroscientist, emeritus professor of Human Physiology at the University of Parma, known for discovering mirror neurons and winning the 2025 International Prize for Biology.

Giampaolo Merlini

Giampaolo Merlini is an Italian physician-scientist and Professor of Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Pavia who founded its Amyloidosis Research and Treatment Center and shaped AL amyloidosis treatment.

Gian Carlo Viberti

Gian Carlo Viberti is a British diabetologist and Emeritus Professor of Diabetes at King's College London, known for research on microalbuminuria and diabetic kidney disease.

Gian Gastone Neri Serneri

Gian Gastone Neri Serneri (1925–2020) was an Italian physician and professor of internal medicine at Florence whose clinical trials established low-dose heparin for unstable angina.

Giancarlo Agnelli

Giancarlo Agnelli is an Italian physician-scientist, Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Perugia, known for leading clinical trials of anticoagulants including the Caravaggio trial.

Giancarlo Comi

Giancarlo Comi (1947–2024) was an Italian neurologist and multiple sclerosis researcher who led defining phase 3 trials, co-founded the European Charcot Foundation, and won the 2015 Charcot Award.

Giancarlo Viberti

Giancarlo Viberti is an emeritus professor of diabetes at King's College London who established microalbuminuria as a predictor of diabetic kidney disease and led landmark drug trials.

Gianfranco Alpini

Gianfranco Alpini is an American hepatology researcher known for work on cholangiocyte biology, the ductular reaction, and bile duct diseases, based at Texas A&M from 1994 and later Indiana University.

Gianni Bonadonna

Gianni Bonadonna (1934–2015) was an Italian medical oncologist at the Istituto Nazionale Tumori in Milan who designed the CMF breast cancer and ABVD Hodgkin lymphoma regimens.

Gianni Tognoni

Gianni Tognoni, born 1941, is an Italian clinical epidemiologist who led clinical-epidemiological research at the Mario Negri Institute in Milan for 40 years, known for the GISSI trials.

Gianpietro Dotti

Gianpietro Dotti is an Italian-trained physician-scientist who directs the immunotherapy program at UNC Lineberger, where his research engineers CAR T cells to treat lymphoma and solid tumors.

Gianvito Martino

Gianvito Martino is an Italian neurologist and neuroimmunologist, born 1962 in Bergamo, who studies stem cell therapies for multiple sclerosis and led the first neural stem cell trial.

Giao Q. Phan

Giao Q. Phan is a surgical oncologist and cancer immunotherapy researcher whose 2003 study reported complete melanoma regressions from CTLA-4 blockade, cited by the 2018 Nobel Committee.

Gideon A. Rodan

Gideon A. Rodan (1934–2006) was a Romanian-born bone biologist who directed bone biology and osteoporosis research at Merck and helped bring Fosamax, the first bisphosphonate approved for osteoporosis, to market.

Gideon Goldstein

Gideon Goldstein is an immunologist and molecular biologist known for co-discovering ubiquitin in 1975 and for isolating thymopoietin, a hormone of the thymus, at Sloan-Kettering.

Gideon Lack

Gideon Lack is a British pediatric allergist, Professor of Paediatric Allergy at King's College London, known for the LEAP trial showing that feeding peanut to high-risk infants prevents peanut allergy.

Gideon M. Hirschfield

Gideon M. Hirschfield is a hepatologist who directs the Autoimmune Liver Disease Program at Toronto General Hospital and led the 2024 phase 3 seladelpar trial for primary biliary cholangitis.