Life and health scientists

Edward Giniger

Edward Giniger is an American molecular neuroscientist who leads the Axon Guidance and Neural Connectivity Section at NINDS, studying how neurons connect during development and disconnect in disease.

Edward Guadagnoli

Edward Guadagnoli is an American health care policy researcher and emeritus professor at Harvard Medical School known for studies of regional variation in cardiac care.

Edward H. Ahrens Jr. (1915–2000) was an American physician-scientist at Rockefeller University who showed saturated and unsaturated dietary fats have opposite effects on blood cholesterol and founded the Journal of Lipid Research.

Edward H. Egelman

Edward H. Egelman, born in 1952, is an American biophysicist at the University of Virginia known for cryo-electron microscopy of helical filaments and the IHRSR reconstruction algorithm.

Edward H. Kass

Edward H. Kass was an American epidemiologist who founded and directed the Channing Laboratory in Boston and set the quantitative urine-culture threshold for urinary-tract infection known as the Kass count.

Edward H. Koo

Edward H. Koo (1954–2025) was an American neurologist and neuroscientist, professor at UCSD and the National University of Singapore, known for work on amyloid precursor protein and gamma-secretase in Alzheimer's disease.

Oct 10, 2026

Edward H. Lambert

Edward H. Lambert (1915–2003) was an American neurologist and physiologist at the Mayo Clinic who founded the first US electromyography laboratory in 1947 and proved Lambert–Eaton myasthenic syndrome is a presynaptic disorder.

Edward Herbert (American biochemist)

Edward Herbert (1926–1987) was an American molecular biologist who discovered proopiomelanocortin, the precursor of ACTH and beta-endorphin, and founded the Vollum Institute in Portland, Oregon.

Edward Hoover

Edward A. Hoover (1942–2023) was an American veterinarian and virologist at Colorado State University who developed the first successful feline leukemia virus vaccine and led chronic wasting disease research.

Edward I. Ginns

Edward I. Ginns is an American neurologist who directs the Lysosomal Storage Disorders Treatment and Research Center at UMass Chan Medical School, known for Gaucher disease research.

Edward J. Benz

Edward J. Benz, born 1946, is an American hematologist and geneticist who first showed a beta-globin mRNA defect underlies beta thalassemia and led Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Edward J. Goetzl

Edward J. Goetzl is an American physician-scientist in allergy and immunology who moved from Harvard to UCSF and later developed blood tests for predicting Alzheimer's disease.

Edward J. Mills

Edward J. Mills is a clinical epidemiologist and part-time professor at McMaster University, known for large HIV meta-analyses and for leading the TOGETHER trial of repurposed drugs for early COVID-19.

Edward J. Pearce

Edward J. Pearce, also known as Edward Pearce, is a British-born immunologist and parasitologist known for immunometabolism and type 2 immunity research; he joined Johns Hopkins University in 2020.

Oct 10, 2026

Edward James Salisbury

Sir Edward James Salisbury (1886–1978) was a British botanist and ecologist who pioneered the quantitative study of plant reproduction and directed the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, from 1943 to 1956.

Edward Jenner

Edward Jenner (1749–1823), English physician of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, introduced vaccination against smallpox using cowpox; his 1796 Phipps experiment and 1798 Inquiry founded immunology, leading to smallpox eradication in 1980.

Edward K. Wakeland

Edward K. Wakeland, born in 1949, is an immunologist and immunogeneticist at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas known for work on MHC diversity and lupus genetics.

Edward Korn

Edward Korn was an American biochemist at the National Institutes of Health who discovered actin filaments and myosin I. His work is foundational to understanding how eukaryotic cells move.

Edward Kravitz

Edward Kravitz (1932–2025) was an American neurobiologist at Harvard Medical School known for showing that GABA inhibits neurons and that amines bias aggression in lobsters.

Edward L. Giovannucci

Edward L. Giovannucci is an American physician and nutritional cancer epidemiologist, Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at Harvard, known for research on diet and cancer.

Edward L. Hannan

Edward L. Hannan is an American health services researcher and Distinguished Professor at the University at Albany, SUNY, known for outcomes research on cardiac surgery and stenting.

Edward L. Kaplan

Edward L. Kaplan was an American pediatrician and streptococcal researcher, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota and head of the WHO Collaborating Center for Streptococci in Minneapolis.

Edward L. Kuff

Edward L. Kuff was an American molecular biologist at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, known for showing that intracisternal A particles are repeated, mobile mouse genome elements.

Edward L. Schneider

Edward L. Schneider is an American gerontologist and physician, Dean Emeritus of the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology and former Deputy Director of the National Institute on Aging.

Edward Laurens Mark

Edward Laurens Mark (1847–1946) was an American zoologist and embryologist at Harvard who built its Zoological Laboratories, co-founded the Bermuda Biological Station, and trained many biologists.

Edward M. Brown

Edward M. Brown, fully Edward Meigs Brown, is an American endocrinologist and emeritus Harvard professor whose laboratory identified and cloned the calcium-sensing receptor, earning the Endocrine Society's highest award in 2019.

Edward M. Callaway

Edward M. Callaway is an American systems neuroscientist at the Salk Institute, known for developing monosynaptic rabies virus tracing and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.

Edward M. De Robertis

Edward M. De Robertis is a Uruguayan-born developmental biologist, professor at UCLA since 1985, known for the first vertebrate Hox gene and the Chordin/BMP gradient.

Edward M. Hedgecock

Edward M. Hedgecock is a biologist and professor at Johns Hopkins University who studies the developmental genetics of the nematode worm C. elegans, identifying nearly 30 genes affecting cell migrations or axon outgrowth.