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Elizabeth Siddon

Elizabeth Calvert "Ebett" Siddon is an American fisheries research biologist at NOAA's Alaska Fisheries Science Center in Juneau, Alaska, who received the Presidential Early Career Award in 2019.

Elizabeth Simpson (immunologist)

Elizabeth Simpson, born 1939, is a British transplantation immunologist and Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London, known for her work on the male-specific HY antigen.

Elizabeth Skidmore

Elizabeth Skidmore is an American occupational therapist and rehabilitation scientist, Associate Dean for Research at the University of Pittsburgh, known for research on cognitive impairment and stroke rehabilitation.

Elizabeth Smyth

Elizabeth Smyth is an Irish-trained medical oncologist at Oxford University Hospitals specializing in esophagogastric cancer; she chairs the EORTC GI Trials Group and was elected ESMO Director of Education in 2025.

Elizabeth Vierling

Elizabeth Vierling is an American plant molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.

Elizabeth Winzeler

Elizabeth A. Winzeler is an American malaria researcher at the University of California, San Diego, known for cell-based antimalarial drug discovery and the genetics of drug resistance in malaria parasites.

Elı́as Campo

Elías Campo Güerri, born 1955 in Boltaña, Spain, is a pathologist at the University of Barcelona known for genomic characterization of chronic lymphocytic leukemia and lymphoid neoplasms.

Ella Al-Shamahi

Ella Al-Shamahi, British-Yemeni palaeoanthropologist, evolutionary biologist, National Geographic Explorer, TV presenter, and stand-up comic; Neanderthal specialist, host of BBC/PBS series Human (2025) and author of The Handshake.

Ellen A. Robey

Ellen A. Robey (Ellen Robey) is an American immunologist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for defining Notch signaling's role in T cell lineage choices in the thymus.

Ellen Fanning

Ellen Fanning was a biochemist at Vanderbilt University whose research explained how mammalian cells control DNA replication, working on SV40, DNA polymerase alpha-primase, and PCNA until her death in 2013.

Ellen Frank (psychologist)

Ellen Frank is an American clinical psychologist and mood disorders researcher, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh, known for the 1990 maintenance-therapy trial and IPSRT.

Ellen Jorgensen

Ellen Jorgensen is an American molecular biologist who co-founded Genspace in Brooklyn in 2010, the first publicly accessible community biotechnology laboratory, and later founded Biotech Without Borders.

Ellen Leibenluft

Ellen Leibenluft is an American psychiatrist at the National Institute of Mental Health known for research on pediatric bipolar disorder and severe chronic irritability in children.

Ellen R. Wald

Ellen R. Wald is an American pediatric infectious disease physician-scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for research on sinusitis, otitis media, and urinary tract infections in children.

Ellen S. Vitetta

Ellen S. Vitetta is an American immunologist and Professor Emeritus at UT Southwestern in Dallas, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1994, known for B cell biology and antibody-based cancer therapies.

Ellen Sidransky

Ellen Sidransky is an American pediatrician and clinical geneticist at the NIH who established GBA1 mutations as the most common genetic risk factor for Parkinson's disease.

Ellen Solomon

Ellen Solomon is a British human and cancer geneticist at King's College London known for her work on breast cancer genetics and acute promyelocytic leukemia.

Ellen V. Rothenberg

Ellen V. Rothenberg is a molecular immunologist at Caltech known for decoding the gene networks that drive T-cell development; she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

Elli Papaemmanuil

Elli Papaemmanuil is a molecular geneticist leading the Papaemmanuil Lab at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, known for the 2016 genomic classification of acute myeloid leukemia.

Elliot Alpert

Elliot Alpert is an American medical researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard who established alpha-fetoprotein as a marker for liver cancer and fetal neural tube defects.

Elliot B. Tapper

Elliot B. Tapper is an American hepatologist at the University of Michigan who directs the Michigan Cirrhosis Program and is known for work on non-invasive liver fibrosis assessment.

Elliot Israel

Elliot Israel is an American pulmonary physician-scientist who directs asthma research at Brigham and Women's Hospital and led the PREPARE trial of as-needed inhaled corticosteroids.

Elliot Krane

Elliot J. Krane is an American pediatric anesthesiologist and pain-medicine specialist who led the Pain Management Service at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford from 1994 to 2023.

Elliot L. Elson

Elliot L. Elson is an American biochemist and biophysicist, professor emeritus at Washington University School of Medicine, who co-developed fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and FRAP and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

Elliot M. Frohman

Elliot M. Frohman is an American neurologist and neuroimmunologist specializing in multiple sclerosis, who founded the MS program at UT Southwestern and led its optical coherence tomography research.

Elliot M. Meyerowitz

Elliot Meyerowitz is an American plant developmental biologist, the George W. Beadle Professor at Caltech, known for establishing Arabidopsis as a model organism and the ABC model of flower development.

Elliot S. Vesell

Elliot S. Vesell (1933–2018) was an American pharmacologist who founded and chaired the Department of Pharmacology at Penn State College of Medicine and helped establish pharmacogenetics through twin studies showing that drug response is inherited.

Elliott F. Osserman

Elliott F. Osserman was a physician-scientist in hematology and immunology at Columbia University whose 1959 review reframed multiple myeloma as one pattern of a single plasma-cell disease.

Elliott Kieff

Elliott Kieff (1943–2024) was an American virologist who established the molecular biology of Epstein–Barr virus and its role in cancer, leading virology at Harvard and Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Elliott M. Antman

Elliott M. Antman is an American cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School whose drug trials reshaped heart-attack treatment; he led the American Heart Association in 2014-15.