Life and health scientists

Élie Azoulay

Élie Azoulay (born 1966) is a French intensive-care physician and professor of medicine at Université Paris Cité, directing the medical ICU at Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris.

Élie Wollman

Élie Wollman (1917–2008) was a French bacterial geneticist who spent his career at the Institut Pasteur, known for zygotic induction and the first genetic map of a bacterial chromosome.

Eliezer Masliah

Eliezer Masliah is a physician-scientist and neuropathologist known for research on synaptic damage in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease; in 2024 the NIH found research misconduct against him.

Eliezer Van Allen

Eliezer Van Allen is an American medical oncologist and computational biologist who leads population sciences at Dana-Farber and studies genomics of cancer therapy response and resistance.

Elihu H. Estey

Elihu H. Estey was an American hematologist and oncologist who introduced a chemotherapy-free ATRA plus arsenic regimen for APL and shaped European LeukemiaNet AML guidelines.

Elina Ikonen

Elina Ikonen, born 1961 in Helsinki, is a Finnish cell biologist and professor at the University of Helsinki who studies how cholesterol and other lipids move and are stored in cells.

Elio Ríboli

Elio Ríboli is a physician-epidemiologist at Imperial College London who designed and led EPIC, a European cancer and nutrition study of over half a million people.

Elior Peles

Elior Peles is an Israeli cellular and molecular neurobiologist, a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot known for work on the axon–glia interface and nodes of Ranvier.

Elisa Izaurralde (1959–2018) was a Uruguayan-born biochemist and molecular biologist known for work on messenger RNA export and silencing, and director at the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen from 2005 until her death.

Elisabeth A. Murray

Elisabeth A. Murray is an American cognitive neuroscientist who studies learning, memory, and decision-making in monkeys, and chief of the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory Section at NIMH.

Elisabeth B. Binder

Elisabeth B. Binder, born 1971 in Vienna, is an Austrian psychiatrist and neuroscientist directing translational research in psychiatry at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich.

Elisabeth G.E. de Vries

Elisabeth G.E. de Vries, known as Liesbeth de Vries, is a Dutch medical oncologist and professor at the University Medical Center Groningen who pioneered cancer drug imaging.

Elisabeth Gantt

Elisabeth Gantt is a Yugoslav-born American plant biologist and phycologist at the University of Maryland, best known for discovering phycobilisomes, the light-harvesting complexes of red algae.

Elisabeth Knust

Elisabeth Knust (born 1951) is a developmental biologist and Director Emerita at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, known for the Drosophila polarity genes crumbs, stardust, and bazooka.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926–2004), Swiss-born American psychiatrist, wrote On Death and Dying (1969), introducing the five stages DABDA; pioneer of counseling the dying and hospice, later heavily criticized model.

Elisabeth Tournier‐Lasserve

Elisabeth Tournier-Lasserve is a French medical geneticist and neurologist at Université Paris Cité whose laboratory identified the Notch3 gene behind CADASIL, a hereditary stroke disorder; she shared the 2019 Brain Prize.

Elisabetta Dejana

Elisabetta Dejana, born 1951 in Bologna, is an Italian vascular biologist known for discovering VE-cadherin, the first tissue-specific cadherin, and for work on angiogenesis and cerebral cavernous malformations.

Elisabetta Patorno

Elisabetta Patorno is an Italian-trained physician and pharmacoepidemiologist, a Harvard School of Public Health graduate who became Professor of Medicine at UCLA in 2026 and led the 2017 NEJM study on lithium use in pregnancy.

Elisabetta Ullu

Elisabetta Ullu was an Italian-born RNA biologist and molecular parasitologist at Yale School of Medicine known for her studies of Trypanosoma brucei, the parasite that causes African sleeping sickness.

Eliseo J. Perez-Stable

Eliseo J. Perez-Stable, also known as Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, is a Cuban-born American physician-scientist who has directed the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities at NIH since 2015.

Elissa L. Newport

Elissa L. Newport is an American cognitive scientist at Georgetown University known for the "less is more" hypothesis of child language learning and for helping establish statistical learning.

Elizabeth (Betsy) Elder Weiner

Elizabeth (Betsy) Elder Weiner is an American nursing informaticist elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2013, known for pioneering simulation and distance learning in nursing education.

Elizabeth A. Campbell

Elizabeth A. Campbell is a structural biologist at Rockefeller University who studies RNA polymerases, known for the first rifampicin-bound polymerase structure and atomic structures of the SARS-CoV-2 replication machinery.

Elizabeth A. Craig

Elizabeth A. Craig is an American molecular biologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who studies Hsp70 molecular chaperones and J-protein co-chaperones in yeast; she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1998.

Elizabeth A. Eisenhauer

Elizabeth A. Eisenhauer is a Canadian medical oncologist at Queen's University who directed the NCIC Clinical Trials Group's Investigational New Drug Program from 1982 to 2012.

Elizabeth A. McGlynn

Elizabeth A. McGlynn is an American health services researcher, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2005, best known for a 2003 study finding US adults receive about half of recommended care.

Elizabeth A. Phelps

Elizabeth A. Phelps is a cognitive neuroscientist at Harvard University who studies how emotion shapes memory and decision making, and showed fear memories can be rewritten through reconsolidation.

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Elizabeth A. Tivol

Elizabeth A. Tivol is an immunologist best known as first author of the 1995 Immunity paper reporting the CTLA-4 knockout mouse, cited in the 2018 Nobel Prize background.

Elizabeth Anne Kellogg

Elizabeth Anne Kellogg, known professionally as Toby Kellogg, is a plant systematist who studies grass evolution and crop biology at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis.