Life and health scientists

Eileen D. Adamson

Eileen D. Adamson, also published as E. D. Adamson, is a molecular biologist and professor at the Burnham Institute in San Diego who studied teratocarcinoma stem cell differentiation.

Eileen E. M. Furlong

Eileen E. M. Furlong is a developmental genomics biologist who heads the Genome Biology Unit at EMBL Heidelberg, known for work on developmental enhancers and the 2022 Leibniz Prize.

Eileen M. Crimmins is an American demographer and gerontologist at the University of Southern California, known for research on mortality, life expectancy, and aging, and elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Eileen M. O’Reilly

Eileen M. O'Reilly is a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, known for treating pancreatic and hepatobiliary cancers and developing KRAS-directed vaccines.

Eileen White

Eileen White is an American cancer biologist at Rutgers Cancer Institute known for research on apoptosis and autophagy in cancer, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

Eiman Azim

Eiman Azim is an American neuroscientist at the Salk Institute who studies how neural circuits control skilled movements such as reaching and grasping, and received a 2017 PECASE award.

Eimear E. Kenny

Eimear E. Kenny, also known as Eimear Kenny, is an Irish-born population and medical geneticist who directs the Institute for Genomic Health at Mount Sinai in New York.

Einar Hammarsten

Einar Hammarsten (1889–1968) was a Swedish physician and biochemist, professor of chemistry and pharmacy at Karolinska Institutet from 1928 to 1957, who first showed that RNA occurs in animal organs.

Einar Meulengracht

Jens Einar Meulengracht (1887–1976) was a Danish internist, chief physician at Bispebjerg Hospital and professor at Copenhagen, known for the Meulengracht diet and icterus index.

Einav Tayeb-Fligelman

Einav Tayeb-Fligelman is an Israeli structural biologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who studies amyloids and revealed the cross-α fibril structure of the Staphylococcus aureus toxin PSMα3.

Einosuke Harada

Einosuke Harada (1892–1946) was a Japanese ophthalmologist at the Hara Eye Clinic in Nagasaki who in 1926 first described the bilateral uveitis now known as Harada disease, part of Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada syndrome.

Eisuke Nishida

Eisuke Nishida (西田栄介, born 1958) is a Japanese cell biologist known for elucidating the MAP kinase signaling pathway and winner of the 2016 Japan Academy Prize.

Eitan Kerem

Eitan Kerem (איתן כרם) is an Israeli pediatric pulmonologist and cystic fibrosis researcher whose 1992 mortality-prediction model set the modern threshold for lung-transplant referral in cystic fibrosis.

Eizaburo Doi (土肥英三郎)

Eizaburo Doi (土肥英三郎) is a Japanese computational neuroscientist who builds information-theoretic models of visual coding, formerly a Research Scientist at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus from 2015 to 2022.

Ekta Khurana

Ekta Khurana is a computational biologist at Weill Cornell Medicine who identifies DNA changes that drive cancer, and a 2025 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award.

Elaine A. Elion

Elaine A. Elion is a molecular biologist at Harvard Medical School known for showing that the yeast protein Ste5 tethers kinases in a MAP kinase cascade.

Elaine A. Ostrander

Elaine A. Ostrander is an American geneticist at the National Human Genome Research Institute who began the canine genome project in 1993 and studies human cancer genetics.

Elaine Dzierzak

Elaine Dzierzak is a developmental biologist known for showing that blood stem cells are born inside the embryo, in the AGM region, and is Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh.

Elaine Fuchs

Elaine Fuchs (born 1950) is an American cell biologist who studies skin stem cells and tissue repair, known for work on keratin genes and hair-follicle stem cells.

Elaine Hsiao

Elaine Y. Hsiao is a microbiome researcher at UCLA who studies how gut microbes influence brain development, known for work connecting gut bacteria to autism and epilepsy.

Elaine M. Hylek

Elaine M. Hylek is an American physician-scientist and professor of medicine at Boston University, known for research defining how intensely blood should be thinned to prevent stroke in atrial fibrillation.

Elaine M. Tobin

Elaine M. Tobin is an American plant molecular biologist who joined UCLA in 1975, showed that phytochrome controls gene transcription, and discovered the plant circadian clock component CCA1.

Elaine R. Mardis

Elaine R. Mardis, also known as Elaine Mardis, is an American cancer genomics researcher who co-led the first whole cancer genome sequencing and now leads the Institute for Genomic Medicine at Nationwide Children's Hospital.

Elaine S. Jaffe

Elaine S. Jaffe is an American hematopathologist who heads the Hematopathology Section at the National Cancer Institute, known for her 1974 paper showing nodular lymphoma arises from follicular B cells.

Elaine Tuomanen

Elaine Tuomanen is an American pediatric infectious diseases physician-scientist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, known for research on how Streptococcus pneumoniae invades the human host.

Elan D. Louis

Elan D. Louis, also known as Elan Louis, is an American neurologist who is Professor and Chair of Neurology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, known for research on essential tremor.

Elazar Zelzer

Elazar Zelzer is an Israeli molecular and developmental biologist, a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science known for linking skeletal development genetics with mechanosensory neurons.

Eldon John Gardner

Eldon John Gardner (1909–1989) was an American geneticist at Utah State University and the University of Utah whose 1951 study led to Gardner's syndrome being named for him.

Eldon Newcomb

Eldon H. Newcomb (1919–2022) was an American plant cell biologist and electron microscopist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for characterizing plant microbodies and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1988.