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Gordon J. Freeman

Gordon J. Freeman is an American immunologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School who identified PD-L1 and PD-L2 as the ligands of PD-1.

Gordon K. Danielson

Gordon K. Danielson, full name Gordon Kenneth Danielson, Jr., was an American cardiovascular surgeon at the Mayo Clinic who pioneered operations for complex congenital heart defects, including Ebstein anomaly repair.

Gordon Keller

Gordon M. Keller is a Canadian stem cell biologist known for the 1997 discovery of the hemangioblast and for directing pluripotent stem cells into blood and heart cells.

Gordon L. Brownell

Gordon L. Brownell, also known as Gordon Lee Brownell, was an American MIT physicist who pioneered positron imaging of brain tumors in the 1950s, a technology that evolved into PET.

Gordon Lowe

Gordon Lowe, born 1949, is a Scottish physician-scientist who was Professor of Vascular Medicine at Glasgow from 1993 to 2009 and showed that raised clotting factor levels increase thrombosis risk.

Gordon Morgan Holmes

Gordon Morgan Holmes was an Irish neurologist at Queen Square, London, who defined the clinical signs of cerebellar disease and mapped the human visual cortex.

Gordon Peters

Gordon Peters (1948–2016) was a British molecular biologist at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and Cancer Research UK, known for identifying the int-2 locus and the INK4a/ARF tumor suppressor locus.

Gordon R. Bernard

Gordon R. Bernard is an American pulmonary and critical care physician-scientist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center who led the NIH ARDS Clinical Trials Network from 1994 to 2014.

Gordon Rustin

Gordon J.S. Rustin is a British medical oncologist known for trials in gynecological cancer and germ-cell tumors and for CA125 research at Charing Cross and Mount Vernon hospitals.

Gordon Zubrod

Charles Gordon Zubrod (1914–1999) was an American oncologist who, as clinical and scientific director of the National Cancer Institute, built the cooperative clinical trials system through which childhood leukemia became largely curable.

Gösta Forssell

Gösta Forssell (1876–1950) was a Swedish physician and radiologist who founded Radiumhemmet in Stockholm in 1910, coined the term behind brachytherapy, founded Acta Radiologica, and built Swedish radiotherapy.

Gösta Gahrton

Gösta Gahrton is a Swedish hematologist and professor emeritus at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, known for establishing allogeneic stem cell transplantation as a treatment for multiple myeloma.

Gösta Tibblin

Gösta Tibblin (1929–1997) was a Swedish physician and cardiovascular epidemiologist, a pioneer of the field in Sweden, best known for starting and leading the Men Born in 1913 study in Gothenburg.

Gottlieb Burckhardt

Gottlieb Burckhardt (1836–1907) was a Swiss psychiatrist who, as director of the Préfargier asylum, performed the first psychosurgical operations on six patients between 1888 and 1890, decades before the leucotomy.

Graeme Clark (otolaryngologist)

Graeme Clark, born in Camden, New South Wales in 1935, is an Australian otolaryngologist whose Melbourne team developed the first multi-channel cochlear implant, commercialized as the Cochlear/Nucleus device.

Graeme I. Bell

Graeme I. Bell is an American-trained biochemist and human geneticist at the University of Chicago known for the genetics of diabetes, including the first positional cloning of calpain-10 in type 2 diabetes.

Graeme J. Hankey

Graeme J. Hankey is an Australian neurologist and stroke clinician-scientist who holds the Perron Institute Chair in Stroke Research at the University of Western Australia, Perth.

Graeme Meintjes

Graeme Meintjes is a South African infectious-diseases physician, Professor of Medicine at the University of Cape Town, known for research on HIV-associated tuberculosis and cryptococcal meningitis.

Grafton Elliot Smith

Grafton Elliot Smith (1871–1937) was an Australian-born anatomist and Egyptologist who held chairs in Cairo, Manchester, and London and pioneered palaeopathology on ancient Nubian remains.

Graham A. Colditz

Graham A. Colditz is an Australian-born cancer epidemiologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, known for linking postmenopausal hormone therapy to breast cancer risk and for breast cancer risk prediction models.

Graham A. MacGregor

Graham A. MacGregor, also known as G A MacGregor, was a British professor of cardiovascular medicine who founded Action on Salt and drove the UK's national salt-reduction program.

Graham A.R. Johnston

Graham A.R. Johnston, born 1939 in Sydney, is an Australian medicinal chemist and pharmacologist who established bicuculline as a GABA antagonist and was Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Sydney from 1980 to 2011.

Graham H. Jeffries

Graham H. Jeffries (1929–2023) was a New Zealand–trained gastroenterologist who became founding chair of medicine at Penn State and showed antibodies to intrinsic factor in pernicious anemia.

Graham M. Teasdale

Graham M. Teasdale, also known as Graham Teasdale, is a Scottish neurosurgeon and Emeritus Professor at the University of Glasgow who co-created the Glasgow Coma Scale.

Graham R.V. Hughes

Graham R.V. Hughes, known as Graham Hughes, is a British rheumatologist who described the antiphospholipid syndrome, known as Hughes syndrome, and founded the lupus research unit at St Thomas' Hospital in London.

Graham Steell

Graham Steell (1851–1942) was a British physician and cardiologist at Manchester Royal Infirmary, regarded as the leading heart-disease consultant in northern England; the Graham Steell murmur is named for him.

Graham T. McMahon

Graham T. McMahon, also known as Graham McMahon, is an Irish-trained endocrinologist and President and CEO of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education in Chicago since 2015.

Graham Thornicroft

Graham Thornicroft is a British community psychiatrist and Emeritus Professor at King's College London, known for research on mental illness stigma and co-chairing the 2022 Lancet Commission on ending stigma.

Grant D. Huang

Grant D. Huang (Grant Huang) is an American clinical trials researcher who has been Acting Chief Research and Development Officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs since February 2025.

Grant J. Anhalt

Grant J. Anhalt is a physician-scientist and professor of dermatology at Johns Hopkins, known for the 1982 experiment proving pemphigus autoantibodies are pathogenic and for defining paraneoplastic pemphigus.