edgepedia

Medical and health researchers

8,517 articles

Gil Rabinovici

Gil Rabinovici, also known as Gil D. Rabinovici, is an American behavioral neurologist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for PET imaging of amyloid and tau proteins in Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.

Gilaad G. Kaplan

Gilaad G. Kaplan, also published as Gil Kaplan, is a Canadian gastroenterologist and epidemiologist at the University of Calgary known for measuring the worldwide burden of inflammatory bowel disease.

Gilbert Di Paolo

Gilbert Di Paolo is a Swiss-trained neuroscientist and cell biologist who earned a Ph.D. at Lausanne in 1998, taught at Columbia, and leads neurodegeneration research at Denali Therapeutics.

Gilbert R. Thompson

Gilbert R. Thompson (G. R. Thompson; 1932–2026) was a British physician and Professor of Clinical Lipidology at Imperial College London who pioneered plasma exchange and LDL apheresis for familial hypercholesterolaemia.

Gilbert Vassart

Gilbert Vassart, born 1944 in Brussels, is a Belgian physician-scientist at the Université Libre de Bruxelles whose laboratory cloned the TSH receptor in 1989 and showed its mutations cause hyperthyroidism.

Gilda A Barabino

Gilda A. Barabino is an American biomedical engineer known for research on sickle red blood cell adhesion and president of Olin College of Engineering from 2020 to 2025.

Gill Livingston

Gill Livingston is a British psychiatrist, Professor of Psychiatry of Older People at University College London, known for leading the Lancet Commission on dementia prevention.

Gilles Mithieux

Gilles Mithieux (born 1958) is a French physiologist and CNRS research director who leads the NUDICE unit in Lyon, known for establishing intestinal gluconeogenesis as a gut-to-brain signal controlling hunger and glucose metabolism.

Gilles Montalescot

Gilles Montalescot is a French cardiologist, professor at Sorbonne Université and cardiologist at Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, who led major trials in acute coronary syndromes and antithrombotic therapy.

Gilles R. Dagenais

Gilles R. Dagenais, also published as Gilles Dagenais, is a Canadian cardiologist and epidemiologist at the IUCPQ in Quebec City, known for the HOPE-3 trial and PURE cohort studies.

Gilles Salles

Gilles Salles is a French-born medical oncologist and hematologist specializing in B-cell lymphomas, known for leading the PRIMA trial and chief of the Lymphoma Service at MSK since 2020.

Gilles Thomas (French geneticist)

Gilles Thomas was a French geneticist and cancer researcher who helped found cancer genetics in France, directing work that identified genes for Ewing sarcoma and Crohn's disease; he died in 2013.

Gillian L. Booth

Gillian L. Booth is a Canadian endocrinologist at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto who studies how socioeconomic status, walkability, and health-care access shape diabetes risk and its cardiovascular complications.

Gino Roberto Corazza

Gino Roberto Corazza is an Italian physician-scientist in internal medicine and gastroenterology at the University of Pavia, known for his work on coeliac disease and villous atrophy.

Giorgio V. Scagliotti

Giorgio V. Scagliotti is an Italian medical oncologist specializing in lung cancer, Full Professor at the University of Turin and IASLC President from 2017 to 2019.

Giovanna Liuzzo

Giovanna Liuzzo is an Italian cardiologist and physician-scientist at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome, known for establishing that inflammation and T-cell immunity destabilize coronary plaques.

Giovanna Tosato

Giovanna Tosato is an American-based physician-scientist studying virus-associated cancer and blood vessel growth, a Senior Investigator at the National Cancer Institute since 1999 after directing an FDA division.

Giovanni Battista Migliori

Giovanni Battista Migliori (G.B. Migliori) is an Italian physician-scientist known for work on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, directing the WHO Collaborating Centre for TB and Lung Diseases in Tradate, Italy.

Giovanni Camussi

Giovanni Camussi, born in Turin in 1947, is an Italian nephrologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Turin known for showing that stem cell microvesicles protect the kidney from injury.

Giovanni Davı̀

Giovanni Davì, also known as G Davì, was an Italian internist and professor at the University of Chieti whose research linked platelet activation to atherothrombosis in diabetes.

Giovanni Landoni

Giovanni Landoni, born in Milan in 1971, is an Italian cardiac anesthesiologist and intensive care physician who leads large randomized trials of perioperative care at San Raffaele.

Giovanni Monteleone

Giovanni Monteleone (born 1964 in Catanzaro) is an Italian gastroenterologist and immunologist, full professor at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, known for the Crohn's disease drug mongersen.

Giovanni Raimondo

Giovanni Raimondo (G. Raimondo) is an Italian physician-scientist, full professor of internal medicine at the University of Messina, known for establishing occult hepatitis B virus infection as a major hepatology topic.

Giovanni Targher

Giovanni Targher (born 1966) is an Italian physician and clinical epidemiologist, professor of endocrinology at the University of Verona known for research on fatty liver disease.

Giovanni Tonon

Giovanni Tonon is an Italian physician-scientist in hematology and cancer genomics, a full professor and director of the Centre for Omics Sciences at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan.

Giraud V. Foster

Giraud V. Foster was an American endocrinologist whose 1964 Nature paper established that calcitonin, the calcium-lowering hormone, comes from the thyroid; he later directed the Johns Hopkins Program in Gynecology and Obstetrics.

Girish N. Vyas

Girish N. Vyas, also published as G. N. Vyas, is an Indian-born American transfusion-medicine scientist and hepatitis B researcher, Professor Emeritus of Laboratory Medicine at UCSF.

Giulio Stefanini

Giulio Giuseppe Stefanini is an Italian interventional cardiologist and Professor of Cardiology at Humanitas University in Milan, known for his 2013 New England Journal review of drug-eluting stents.

Giuseppe Bastianelli

Giuseppe Bastianelli (1862–1959) was an Italian malariologist who, with Grassi and Bignami, first described the malaria parasite's cycle in Anopheles mosquitoes and proved they transmit human malaria.

Giuseppe Bianchi (Italian nephrologist)

Giuseppe Bianchi is an Italian nephrologist and hypertension researcher, Professor Emeritus at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan, known for the Milan hypertensive rat strain.