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Eleanor A. Maguire

Eleanor Anne Maguire (1970–2025) was an Irish cognitive neuroscientist and professor at University College London whose London taxi driver studies showed the adult hippocampus changes structurally with navigational experience.

Eleanor J. Gibson

Eleanor J. Gibson was an American developmental psychologist at Cornell University known for the visual cliff experiment, perceptual learning theory, and research on how children learn to read.

Eleanor Longden

Eleanor Longden is a British research psychologist who recovered from a diagnosis of schizophrenia as a student, known for her 2013 TED talk on learning to listen to her voices.

Electron Kebebew

Electron Kebebew is an American endocrine surgeon and scientist, Chief of General Surgery at Stanford since 2018 and previously inaugural chief of the National Cancer Institute's endocrine oncology branch.

Eleftheria Maratos–Flier

Eleftheria Maratos-Flier, also cited as E. Maratos-Flier, is a physician and neuroendocrinologist who spent most of her career at Harvard and Joslin, known for work on MCH and FGF21.

Eleftheria Zeggini

Eleftheria Zeggini is a Greek geneticist who directs the Institute of Translational Genomics at Helmholtz Munich and led genome-wide association studies of type 2 diabetes and osteoarthritis.

Eleftherios Mylonakis

Eleftherios Mylonakis is a Greek-born infectious diseases physician-scientist who chairs medicine at Houston Methodist Hospital, known for a 2001 review of infective endocarditis and synthetic retinoid antibiotics that kill MRSA persisters.

Eleftherios P. Mamounas

Eleftherios P. Mamounas is an American breast surgical oncologist at the AdventHealth Cancer Institute in Orlando who led the NSABP B-51 trial, reported in 2025, showing nodal irradiation can be omitted.

Elena A. Levashina

Elena A. Levashina is a Russian-born immunologist who studies mosquito immunity to malaria and heads the Vector Biology Unit at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology.

Elena B. Pasquale

Elena B. Pasquale is an American-based molecular biologist known for her work on Eph receptors and ephrins at Sanford Burnham Prebys in La Jolla, California.

Elena Cattaneo

Elena Cattaneo is an Italian pharmacologist and neuroscientist, a professor at the University of Milan, known for research on Huntington's disease and neural stem cells.

Elena Conti

Elena Conti (born 1967) is an Italian structural biologist who studies RNA degradation and transport, directing structural cell biology at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.

Elena F. Brachtel

Elena F. Brachtel is a German-trained breast cancer pathologist and cytopathologist, Professor of Clinical Pathology at the University of Miami, known for NEJM Case Records and circulating tumor cell research.

Elena Gracheva

Elena Gracheva is a sensory neuroscientist at Yale School of Medicine known for identifying the ion channels that let snakes and vampire bats sense infrared heat.

Eli A. Friedman

Eli A. Friedman is an American nephrologist at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn, known for the first federally funded US dialysis clinic and the portable "suitcase kidney."

Eli Canaani

Eli Canaani is an Israeli molecular biologist and emeritus professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for identifying the BCR-ABL fusion gene behind chronic myelogenous leukemia.

Eli E. Sercarz

Eli E. Sercarz (1934–2009) was an American immunologist at UCLA known for work on how T cells choose protein targets, introducing dominant and cryptic epitopes and determinant spreading.

Eli Gilboa

Eli Gilboa is an immunologist at the University of Miami known for early gene therapy vectors and mRNA dendritic cell vaccines, a precursor of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.

Eli Kennerly Marshall Jr.

Eli Kennerly Marshall Jr. (1889–1966) was an American pharmacologist at Johns Hopkins who proved kidney tubules actively secrete substances and pioneered blood-level dosing of sulfonamide drugs.

Eli Keshet

Eli Keshet (born 1945) is an Israeli molecular biologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for work on VEGF and how oxygen controls blood vessel growth; he won the 2018 Israel Prize.

Eli M. Miloslavsky

Eli M. Miloslavsky is an American rheumatologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, known for research on ANCA-associated vasculitis and glucocorticoid toxicity.

Eli Robins

Eli Robins (1921–1994) was an American psychiatrist and neurochemist at Washington University in St. Louis who co-developed the Feighner Criteria that led to DSM-III and established the psychological autopsy.

Eli Sprecher

Eli Sprecher (born 1963) is an Israeli dermatologist and medical geneticist who has been CEO of Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center since 2024 and studies the genes behind inherited skin diseases.

Eli Y. Adashi

Eli Y. Adashi, born 1945 in Haifa, is a reproductive-medicine physician-scientist at Brown University and its former dean of medicine, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1999.

Éliane Gluckman

Éliane Gluckman is a French hematologist who performed the first successful umbilical cord blood transplant in 1988 at Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris and founded Eurocord.

Elias Campo

Elías Campo Güerri is a Spanish hematopathologist, professor at the University of Barcelona, who co-led the first whole-genome sequencing of chronic lymphocytic leukemia and mantle cell lymphoma.

Elias Lazarides

Elias Lazarides is a cell biologist at Caltech known for naming the intermediate filament protein desmin in 1976 and extending the red blood cell membrane skeleton to non-erythroid cells.

Elías Mossialos

Elias Mossialos is a health policy scholar and health economist who holds the Cheng Yu Tung Chair in Global Health at LSE and directs LSE Health.

Elias Schwartz

Elias Schwartz was an American pediatric hematologist who led hematology and served as Physician-in-Chief at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and defined beta thalassemia's silent carrier state in 1969.

Elias Zerhouni

Elias Zerhouni is an Algerian-born radiologist and biomedical engineer who served as the 15th Director of the US National Institutes of Health from 2002 to 2008, appointed by President George W. Bush.