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Guenter J. Krejs

Guenter J. Krejs (Günter Josef Krejs) is an Austrian-American gastroenterologist, emeritus professor at the Medical University of Graz, known for the 1979 somatostatinoma syndrome paper.

Guenther Boden

Guenther Boden (1935–2015) was a German-born endocrinologist and diabetes researcher at Temple University who first showed that elevated blood fatty acids interfere with insulin's action.

Guido Baccelli

Guido Baccelli was an Italian physician and statesman, professor of clinical medicine at the University of Rome and repeated Minister of Public Instruction, who promoted the Policlinico Umberto I.

Guido Kroemer

Guido Kroemer, born 1961, is an Austrian-Spanish cell biologist and cancer researcher working in Paris, known for discovering how mitochondrial membrane permeabilization ignites cell death and for the concept of immunogenic cell death.

Guido Lucarelli

Guido Lucarelli, born 1934 in Lucca, is an Italian hematologist who made allogeneic bone marrow transplantation a curative treatment for thalassemia, developing the Pesaro classification and transplant protocols at Pesaro.

Guido Majno

Guido Majno (1922–2010) was an Italian-born pathologist who explained how blood vessels leak during inflammation and co-discovered the myofibroblast, the contractile cell that closes wounds.

Guido Marcucci

Guido Marcucci is an Italian-born American physician-scientist who studies and treats acute myeloid leukemia; since 2014 he has directed the Gehr Family Center for Leukemia Research at City of Hope.

Guido Tricot

Guido J. Tricot is a Belgian-born hematologist-oncologist and myeloma researcher known for developing Total Therapy, which raised median survival for newly diagnosed patients from 2.5 years to 10 or more.

Guillaume Canaud

Guillaume Canaud is a French nephrologist at Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades in Paris whose work led to the 2022 FDA approval of alpelisib for PIK3CA-related overgrowth spectrum.

Guillaume Paré

Guillaume Paré is a Canadian physician-scientist and Professor of Pathology and Molecular Medicine at McMaster University, known for his 2010 study of CYP2C19 genotype and clopidogrel.

Guillermo E. Umpierrez

Guillermo E. Umpierrez is an American endocrinologist, professor of medicine at Emory University, and chief of diabetes and endocrinology at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.

Guillermo J. Tearney

Guillermo J. Tearney is a physician-scientist, pathologist, and physicist at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital known for pioneering in vivo optical coherence tomography and the swallowable imaging capsule.

Guillermo Prado

Guillermo (Willy) Prado is an American prevention scientist at the University of Miami, known for the Familias Unidas family intervention and elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2021.

Gunnar Ågren

Gunnar Ågren, born 1907 in Nacka, was a Swedish physician and biochemist who served as professor of medical chemistry at Uppsala University from 1947 to 1973.

Gunnar Blix

Gunnar Blix (Fritiof Gunnar Blix, 1894–1981) was a Swedish medical chemist, professor at Uppsala University from 1930 to 1961, known for isolating sulfatide and crystallizing sialic acid.

Gunnar Holmgren

Gunnar Holmgren (1875–1954) was a Swedish physician, Sweden's first professor of ear, nose, and throat diseases at Karolinska Institutet, remembered as the father of Swedish ENT for introducing the binocular operating microscope to ear surgery.

Gunnar Juliusson

Gunnar Juliusson is a Swedish hematologist and leukemia researcher, Professor of Laboratory Medicine at Lund University, known for defining the chromosomal prognostic subgroups of CLL in 1990.

Gunnar Steineck

Gunnar Steineck was a Swedish physician and professor of clinical cancer epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet and the University of Gothenburg, known for patient-reported outcome research among cancer survivors.

Günter Breithardt

Günter Breithardt, born 1944 in Haan, is a German cardiologist, professor emeritus at Münster, former European Society of Cardiology president, and co-founder of AFNET, which he chaired from 2003 to 2015.

Günter Weiß

Günter Weiss is an Austrian physician-scientist in internal medicine, hematology, and iron metabolism, director of Internal Medicine II at the Medical University of Innsbruck since 2012.

Günter Wolf

Günter Wolf, also known as Gunter Wolf, is a German nephrologist born in 1961 who directs nephrology at Jena University Hospital and studies diabetic nephropathy.

Günther Deuschl

Günther Deuschl is a German neurologist who led the Department of Neurology at Kiel from 1995 to 2016 and led the randomized trials establishing deep-brain stimulation as a Parkinson's treatment.

Guo‐Ping Shi

Guo-Ping Shi is a principal investigator in cardiovascular medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, known for Nature Medicine papers showing mast cells promote atherosclerosis.

Guojun Bu

Guojun Bu (卜国军) is a neuroscientist known for work on APOE, LRP1, and TREM2 in Alzheimer's disease, and Head of the Division of Life Science at HKUST since 2023.

Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey

Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey, also published as Gurjit Khurana Hershey, is a physician-scientist directing asthma research at Cincinnati Children's, known for identifying an interleukin-4 receptor mutation linked to allergy risk.

Gus R. Rosania

Gus R. Rosania is a pharmaceutical scientist and University of Michigan professor who won a 2006 Presidential Early Career Award and studies drug transport inside cells.

Gust H. Bardy

Gust H. Bardy is a cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist, Clinical Professor at the University of Washington, known for the SCD-HeFT trial and the subcutaneous implantable defibrillator.

Gustav Killian

Gustav Killian (1860–1921) was a German laryngologist who performed the first bronchoscopy in 1897, removing a bone from a patient's bronchus, and is called the father of bronchoscopy.

Gustav Nossal

Gustav Nossal, born 1931, is an Austrian-born Australian immunologist who showed that one immune cell produces one antibody and directed the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne from 1965 to 1996.

Gustav Schonfeld

Gustav Schonfeld (1934–2011) was a Czechoslovakia-born American physician-scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, internationally known for research on apolipoprotein B, cholesterol, and heart disease prevention.