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Edward B. Hayes

Edward B. Hayes was an American medical epidemiologist and pediatrician who spent twenty years at the CDC studying vector-borne diseases before moving to Barcelona in 2008.

Edward B. Lewis

Edward B. Lewis (Edward Butts Lewis) was an American geneticist at Caltech who shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries on the genetic control of embryonic development.

Edward B. Stinson

Edward B. Stinson, born 1938, is an American cardiothoracic surgeon at Stanford University who assisted in the first adult heart transplant in the United States in 1968.

Edward Baker (entomologist)

Edward Baker, known professionally as Ed Baker, is an entomologist and bioacoustics researcher at the Natural History Museum, London, studying insect sounds, especially grasshoppers, crickets, and stick insects.

Edward Boyden

Edward Boyden, born 1979 in Plano, Texas, is an American neuroscientist at MIT who pioneered optogenetics, controlling neurons with light, and led the team that invented expansion microscopy, magnifying tissue for nanoscale imaging.

Edward C. Cox

Edward C. Cox, known as Ted Cox, is an American geneticist and Edwin Grant Conklin Professor of Biology, Emeritus, at Princeton, known for work on mutator genes and single-molecule methods in living bacteria.

Edward C. Franklin

Edward C. Franklin (1928–1982), German-born American immunologist at NYU, discovered heavy chain disease, defined essential mixed cryoglobulinemia as immune-complex vasculitis, and advanced amyloid and immunoglobulin structure research.

Edward C. Holmes

Edward C. Holmes is an evolutionary virologist and Professor at the University of Sydney who studies virus emergence and evolution, and first publicly released the SARS-CoV-2 genome.

Edward C. Kendall

Edward Calvin Kendall was an American biochemist at the Mayo Clinic who isolated thyroxine and the adrenal cortex hormone cortisone, sharing the 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Edward C. Tolman

Edward Chace Tolman (1886–1959) was an American psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley who developed purposive, or molar, behaviorism, explaining whole goal-directed actions, and the cognitive map concept.

Edward D. Freis

Edward D. Freis (1912–2005) was an American cardiologist at the Veterans Administration and Georgetown University who led the landmark VA trial proving antihypertensive drug treatment saves lives.

Edward D. Fröhlich

Edward D. Fröhlich (published as Edward D. Frohlich) was an American physician-scientist in hypertension who spent over 40 years at the Ochsner Clinic Foundation in New Orleans.

Edward D. Harris

Edward D. Harris Jr., known as Ted Harris (1937–2010), was an American rheumatologist who established collagenase's role in rheumatoid arthritis joint destruction and led medicine at Stanford.

Edward D. Salmon

Edward D. Salmon, known as Ted Salmon, is an American cell biologist and microscopist who pioneered video microscopy of mitosis and spent 42 years at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Edward Drinker Cope

Edward Drinker Cope (1840–1897) was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist who described more than 1,000 extinct vertebrate species and fought the Bone Wars rivalry with Othniel Marsh.

Edward E. Farmer

Edward E. Farmer is a Swiss-based plant biologist who spent his career at the University of Lausanne studying wound signaling in plants, retiring in 2023 as Honorary Professor.

Edward E. Max

Edward E. Max is a molecular biologist who studied immunoglobulin gene recombination at NIH and later the FDA, known for his essay arguing shared pseudogenes are strong evidence for evolution.

Edward E. Morrisey

Edward E. Morrisey is an American molecular biologist at the University of Pennsylvania who directs the Penn Center for Pulmonary Biology and studies lung development and regeneration.

Edward E. Walsh

Edward E. Walsh is an American infectious-diseases physician and Professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester whose research since 1980 has centered on respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).

Edward Evarts

Edward Evarts (1926–1985) was an American neurophysiologist who spent his career at the National Institute of Mental Health, pioneering single-neuron recording in awake, behaving monkeys to study voluntary movement.

Edward F. Chang

Edward F. Chang is a neurosurgeon and neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for mapping the human speech cortex and creating the first speech-decoding brain-computer interface for a paralyzed person.

Edward F. DeLong

Edward F. DeLong is an American microbial oceanographer, now Professor Emeritus at the University of Hawaiʻi, whose work established that Archaea are abundant plankton in the open ocean.

Edward F. Knipling

Edward F. Knipling (1909–2000) was an American entomologist with the USDA who conceived the sterile insect technique, eradicating the screwworm fly from the United States.

Edward F. Plow

Edward F. Plow is an American vascular biologist who holds an endowed chair at Cleveland Clinic's Lerner Research Institute and studies integrins and the plasminogen system in thrombosis and inflammation.

Edward G. Biglieri

Edward G. Biglieri (1925–2005) was an American endocrinologist at UCSF and San Francisco General Hospital who discovered 17-hydroxylase deficiency and developed diagnostic protocols for primary aldosteronism.

Edward G. D. Tuddenham

Edward G. D. Tuddenham is a British haematologist and Emeritus Professor of Haemophilia at University College London, known for cloning factor VIII and hemophilia B gene therapy.

Edward G. Jones

Edward G. Jones, known as Ted Jones, was a New Zealand-born American neuroanatomist who established the modern account of thalamic structure and its relationship with the cerebral cortex.

Edward G. Lakatta

Edward G. Lakatta is an American physician-scientist in cardiovascular aging, founder and longtime director of the National Institute on Aging's Laboratory of Cardiovascular Science in Baltimore.

Edward Gane

Edward Gane, formally Edward John Gane, is a New Zealand hepatologist at Auckland City Hospital who led trials of the first oral, interferon-free cure for hepatitis C.

Edward Genton

Edward Genton is a physician in internal medicine known for platelet-survival studies in thrombotic disease and evaluations of platelet-inhibiting drugs, working at the University of Colorado and McMaster University.