Medical and health researchers

Giuseppe Curigliano

Giuseppe Curigliano is an Italian medical oncologist who leads early drug development at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan and specializes in breast cancer.

Giuseppe Giaccone is an Italian-born medical oncologist specializing in lung cancer, thymic tumors, and mesothelioma, who led the National Cancer Institute's Medical Oncology Branch from 2007 to 2012.

Giuseppe Gradenigo

Giuseppe Gradenigo (1859–1926) was an Italian otolaryngologist who founded one of Italy's first university ENT clinics in Turin and in 1904 described Gradenigo's syndrome, the triad of otitis media, trigeminal pain, and abducens palsy.

Giuseppe Mancia

Giuseppe Mancia is an Italian hypertension researcher, Professor Emeritus at the University of Milano-Bicocca, who chaired the ESH/ESC hypertension guidelines and edited the Journal of Hypertension.

Giuseppe Masera

Giuseppe Masera, born 1937 in Busto Arsizio, is an Italian pediatric hemato-oncologist who founded the University of Milano-Bicocca pediatric clinic in Monza and led the La Mascota twinning program with Nicaragua.

Giuseppe Matarese

Giuseppe Matarese, born in Naples in 1970, is an Italian immunologist and professor at Federico II Naples known for arguing that overnutrition can break immunological self-tolerance.

Giuseppe Muscatello

Giuseppe Muscatello (1866–1951) was an Italian surgeon and twice rector of the University of Catania, nominated for the 1901 Nobel Prize in Medicine for work on post-operative hydrocephalus.

Giuseppe Remuzzi

Giuseppe Remuzzi is an Italian nephrologist born in Bergamo in 1949 who directs the Mario Negri Institute and led trials showing drugs can slow kidney damage.

Giuseppe Sanarelli

Giuseppe Sanarelli (1865–1940) was an Italian bacteriologist known for a discredited 1897 claim that a bacillus causes yellow fever, for discovering rabbit myxomatosis virus, and for the Sanarelli–Shwartzman reaction.

Giuseppe Viale

Giuseppe Viale, born in Turin in 1952, is an Italian pathologist and professor at the University of Milan known for breast cancer biomarkers and HER2 testing.

Gladys Dick

Gladys Dick, born Gladys Rowena Henry Dick, was an American microbiologist who proved scarlet fever is caused by Streptococcus pyogenes and helped devise the Dick skin test.

Glenda Elisabeth Gray

Glenda Elisabeth Gray is a South African physician-scientist known for HIV vaccine research and preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission; she led the SAMRC from 2014 to 2024.

Glenda M. Halliday

Glenda M. Halliday is an Australian neuroscientist and neuropathologist at Neuroscience Research Australia and the University of Sydney, known for research on Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementia.

Glenn D. Braunstein

Glenn D. Braunstein is an American endocrinologist whose hCG assay became the basis of the modern pregnancy test; he chaired medicine at Cedars-Sinai from 1986 to 2012.

Glenn Dranoff

Glenn Dranoff is a physician-scientist and cancer immunologist known for GM-CSF-secreting therapeutic cancer vaccines, a professor at Dana-Farber and Harvard who led Novartis immuno-oncology research from 2015 to 2023.

Glenn F. Pierce

Glenn F. Pierce is an American hematologist and physician-researcher, born with severe hemophilia A and cured in 2008, who helped develop six hemophilia therapies and led Biogen's hemophilia program.

Glenn N. Levine

Glenn N. Levine is an American cardiologist, Master Clinician and Professor of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, known for chairing ACC/AHA guidelines on coronary intervention and antiplatelet therapy.

Gloria Rudenko

Gloria Rudenko (1961–2022) was a molecular microbiologist and professor at Imperial College London who studied how Trypanosoma brucei, the cause of African sleeping sickness, evades the immune system.

Glyn Lewis

Glyn Hywel Lewis, born in 1956, is a psychiatric epidemiologist and professor at University College London known for the ANTLER trial of stopping long-term antidepressants and a 2007 Lancet review of cannabis and psychosis.

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Godfrey Hounsfield

Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield was an English electrical engineer at EMI who invented the first practical CT scanner and shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Gökhan S. Hotamışlıgil

Gökhan S. Hotamışlıgil is a physician-scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health who studies how inflammation drives obesity and type 2 diabetes, and coined "metaflammation."

Goodarz Danaei

Goodarz Danaei is a physician and cardiovascular epidemiologist, Bernard Lown Professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, known for the Globorisk model.

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Goran C. Sedvall

Göran C. Sedvall is a Swedish psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, known for developing PET methods to measure dopamine receptors in the living human brain.

Gordon B. Cutler

Gordon B. Cutler, Jr. is an American endocrinologist who led the Section on Developmental Endocrinology at NIH's NICHD from 1983 to 1997, then worked with Eli Lilly.

Gordon C. S. Smith

Gordon C. S. Smith is a British obstetrician who has been Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Cambridge since 2001, researching placental dysfunction and stillbirth prevention.

Gordon Cook

Gordon Cook, born 1932, is a British physician and medical historian known for research on tropical sprue and as president of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Gordon D. Rubenfeld

Gordon D. Rubenfeld is an intensivist and clinical epidemiologist at the University of Toronto and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, known for measuring the outcomes of acute respiratory distress syndrome.

Gordon F. Tomaselli

Gordon F. Tomaselli is an American cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist who spent 32 years at Johns Hopkins, leading its cardiology division, before becoming dean of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2018.

Gordon Guyatt

Gordon Guyatt is a Canadian physician and Distinguished University Professor at McMaster University who coined evidence-based medicine in 1990 and co-founded GRADE, used by over 110 organizations worldwide.