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Elizabeth Blaber
Elizabeth Blaber is a space biologist and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute who studies how spaceflight stressors affect stem cells and tissue regeneration.
Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Blackburn, born 1948 in Hobart, Tasmania, is an Australian-born molecular biologist who determined telomere DNA composition and shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Elizabeth Bugie
Elizabeth Bugie, later Elizabeth Bugie Gregory, was an American biochemist at Rutgers who co-authored the 1944 streptomycin discovery paper yet received only a 0.2 percent royalty share.
Elizabeth C. Engle
Elizabeth C. Engle is an American neurologist and neurogeneticist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School whose research defined the congenital cranial dysinnervation disorders, birth defects of cranial nerve development.
Elizabeth C. Miller
Elizabeth C. Miller (1920–1987) was an American biochemist who, with her husband James A. Miller, founded the field of chemical carcinogenesis at the University of Wisconsin.
Elizabeth C. Raff
Elizabeth C. Raff, known as Beth Raff, is a cell biologist at Indiana University who used Drosophila genetics to show that tubulin isoforms determine microtubule architecture; she retired in 2019.
Elizabeth D. Getzoff
Elizabeth D. Getzoff (born 1954) is a biochemist and professor at the Scripps Research Institute known for structural work on superoxide dismutase, nitric oxide synthase, and photoactive yellow protein.
Elizabeth D. Hay
Elizabeth D. Hay (1927–2007) was an American cell biologist at Harvard who established the extracellular matrix as a determinant of cell behavior and introduced epithelial-mesenchymal transition.
Elizabeth F. Neufeld
Elizabeth F. Neufeld (born 1928) is an American biochemist who worked out the biochemical causes of lysosomal storage diseases and laid the groundwork for enzyme replacement therapy.
Elizabeth Fisher (British neurogeneticist)
Elizabeth M.C. Fisher is a British neurogeneticist, Professor of Neurogenetics at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology in London, known for mouse models of ALS, Down syndrome, and dynein mutations causing motor neuron degeneration.
Elizabeth Gould (neuroscientist)
Elizabeth Gould is a Princeton neuroscientist known for research showing that the adult mammalian brain produces new neurons, and the first to report neurogenesis in adult primates.
Elizabeth H. Blackburn
Elizabeth H. Blackburn is an Australian-American molecular biologist who discovered the molecular nature of telomeres and co-discovered telomerase, sharing the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Elizabeth H. Bradley
Elizabeth H. Bradley, known as Betsy Bradley, is an American health services researcher and public health scholar who has served as Vassar College's 11th president since July 2017.
Elizabeth Hohmann
Elizabeth Louise Hohmann, known as Libby Hohmann, is an infectious-disease physician-scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital who directs its fecal microbiota transplant laboratory and studies Salmonella and Listeria.
Elizabeth Howell
Elizabeth A. Howell is an American obstetrician-gynecologist and health services researcher known for studies of racial disparities in maternal mortality, and chairs Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Elizabeth J. Goldsmith
Elizabeth J. Goldsmith, also published as E. J. Goldsmith, is an American structural biologist and professor of biochemistry at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas who studies protein kinases.
Elizabeth J. Robertson
Elizabeth J. Robertson, also published as Liz Robertson, is a British developmental biologist and Professor at Oxford known for discovering Nodal and for early embryonic stem cell work.
Elizabeth L. Corbett
Elizabeth L. Corbett is a clinical epidemiologist and Professor of Global Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, known for tuberculosis and HIV research in sub-Saharan Africa.
Elizabeth Lacy
Elizabeth Lacy is a molecular and developmental biologist at the Sloan Kettering Institute in New York since 1983, known for transgenic mouse work and co-authoring "the Mouse Bible".
Elizabeth Leslie
Elizabeth Leslie, also known as Elizabeth J. Leslie-Clarkson, is an American human geneticist and associate professor at Emory University School of Medicine, known for research on orofacial clefts and Van der Woude syndrome.
Elizabeth Loftus
Elizabeth Loftus, also Elizabeth F. Loftus, is an American cognitive psychologist at UC Irvine known for showing that suggestion can create false memories and distort eyewitness testimony.
Elizabeth M. McNally
Elizabeth M. McNally (born 1961) is an American geneticist and cardiologist who directs the Center for Genetic Medicine at Northwestern University, studying inherited heart and muscle disease.
Elizabeth Mayeda
Elizabeth Rose Mayeda is an American epidemiologist and tenured associate professor at UCLA's Fielding School of Public Health, known for quantifying racial disparities in dementia incidence.
Elizabeth Murchison
Elizabeth Murchison is a Tasmanian cancer geneticist who is Professor of Comparative Oncology and Genetics at the University of Cambridge, known for sequencing the Tasmanian devil and its transmissible facial cancer.
Elizabeth Murphy
Elizabeth Murphy is an NIH scientist who studies cardiac cell death and protection against it, leading the Cardiac Physiology Section at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
Elizabeth Nabel
Elizabeth (Betsy) Nabel, American cardiologist; NHLBI director 2005-2009, Brigham and Women's Hospital president 2010-2021, first NFL chief health and medical advisor; vascular gene transfer and progeria researcher.
Elizabeth P. Henske
Elizabeth P. Henske, also known as Elizabeth Petri Henske, is an American physician-scientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital who discovered that TSC2 mutations cause sporadic LAM.
Elizabeth S. Dennis
Elizabeth S. Dennis, also known as Elizabeth Dennis, is an Australian plant molecular biologist known for establishing the molecular and epigenetic basis of vernalization, the process by which cold promotes flowering.
Elizabeth S. Russell
Elizabeth S. Russell, known as "Tibby," was an American mammalian developmental geneticist who spent her career at The Jackson Laboratory and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1972.
Elizabeth Selvin
Elizabeth Selvin is an American epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins whose research on hemoglobin A1c helped establish it as a standard test for diagnosing diabetes; she directs the Welch Center.