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Elliott M. Ross

Elliott M. Ross is an American biochemist and pharmacologist who helped discover the first G proteins and spent his faculty career at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas from 1981.

Elliott S. Fisher

Elliott S. Fisher is an American physician and health services researcher at Dartmouth, known for work on regional Medicare spending differences and accountable care organizations.

Elliott Vichinsky

Elliott Vichinsky is an American pediatric hematologist and UCSF professor who built Oakland's comprehensive sickle cell program and led phase 3 trials of voxelotor and l-glutamine.

Ellis B. Cowling

Ellis B. Cowling (1932–2021) was an American forest biologist at North Carolina State University, a National Academy of Sciences member known for acid rain research.

Ellis Englesberg

Ellis Englesberg (1921–2013) was an American bacterial geneticist best known for discovering positive control of gene expression, showing that regulatory proteins can switch genes on, through his genetic analysis of the E. coli arabinose operon.

Ellis L. Reinherz

Ellis L. Reinherz is an immunologist, Chief of the Laboratory of Immunobiology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard professor, known for defining human T-cell functional subsets and T-cell receptor structure.

Elly Tanaka

Elly M. Tanaka, born 1965 in Boston, is an Austrian-based regeneration biologist who studies axolotl limb and spinal cord regeneration and directs IMBA in Vienna since 2024.

Elmer Drew Merrill

Elmer Drew Merrill (1876–1956) was an American botanist who described over 3,000 Far Eastern plant species, built the Manila herbarium, and directed the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard.

Éloi Marijon

Éloi Marijon is a French cardiologist and electrophysiologist who heads cardiology at Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou in Paris and studies sudden cardiac death and rheumatic heart disease.

Eloise Giblett

Eloise Giblett (1921–2009) was an American physician and human geneticist who led the Puget Sound Blood Center in Seattle and showed that ADA deficiency causes immunodeficiency.

Els Goulmy

Els Goulmy, born in 1946, is a Dutch immunologist who identified the first human minor histocompatibility antigens at Leiden, shaping stem cell transplantation; she won the 2002 Spinoza Prize.

Elsa R. Flores

Elsa R. Flores is a cancer biologist and Senior Member in Molecular Oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida, known for establishing p63 and p73 as tumor suppressors.

Elsebet Lund

Elsebet Lund is a molecular biologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for work on ribosomal RNA processing in E. coli and nuclear export of small RNAs.

Elvin A. Kabat

Elvin A. Kabat (1914–2000) was an American immunochemist at Columbia University who first demonstrated that antibodies are gamma globulins and, with mentor Michael Heidelberger, founded quantitative immunochemistry; his antibody numbering system remains in use.

Elvin C. Stakman

Elvin C. Stakman (1885–1979) was an American plant pathologist at the University of Minnesota who established methods for combating wheat rust fungi and mentored Norman Borlaug.

Elwin E. Fraley

Elwin E. Fraley (1934–2014) was an American urologic surgeon who led the University of Minnesota's urology department from 1969 to 1993, advanced testicular cancer care, and coined "endourology."

Elwood Linney

Elwood Linney is a molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at the Duke University School of Medicine, known for retinoid signaling research.

Elwood V. Jensen

Elwood V. Jensen (1920–2012) was an American biochemist who discovered the estrogen receptor, the first hormone receptor found, turning it into the basis of modern breast cancer diagnosis and therapy.

Elwyn Elias

Elwyn Elias is a British hepatologist and professor at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and the University of Birmingham, known for a 1988 New England Journal of Medicine study reporting poor sulfoxidation in primary biliary cirrhosis.

Elwyn L. Simons

Elwyn L. Simons (1930–2016) was an American vertebrate paleontologist known as the father of modern primate paleontology, who discovered Aegyptopithecus in Egypt's Fayum and led the Duke Primate Center.

Emad N. Eskandar

Emad N. Eskandar is an American neurosurgeon who chairs Neurological Surgery at Montefiore Einstein, having held the Pappas chair at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital.

Emad S. Alnemri

Emad S. Alnemri is a molecular biologist at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia who studies apoptosis and inflammatory cell death, known for discovering the AIM2 inflammasome and named a National Academy of Inventors fellow in 2018.

Emad Tajkhorshid

Emad Tajkhorshid is an Iranian-born professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, best known for molecular dynamics simulations of membrane transport proteins like aquaporins.

Emanuel Donchin

Emanuel Donchin (1935–2018) was an Israeli-born psychophysiologist who helped establish event-related brain potentials as a measure of cognition; his Illinois laboratory characterized the P300 and built a P300-based brain-computer interface.

Emanuel Epstein

Emanuel Epstein (1916–2022) was an American plant physiologist at UC Davis, called the father of modern root physiology, who first applied enzyme kinetics to ion uptake in roots.

Emanuel Margoliash

Emanuel Margoliash (1920–2008) was an Egyptian-born biochemist and molecular evolutionist who sequenced cytochrome c and, with Walter Fitch, published the 1967 paper credited with founding molecular phylogenetics.

Emanuel Rubin

Emanuel Rubin (1928–2021) was an American pathologist and chairman emeritus at Thomas Jefferson University whose research proved alcohol itself, not malnutrition, causes liver disease; he founded the textbook Rubin's Pathology.

Emanuele Di Angelantonio

Emanuele Di Angelantonio, born in Rome in 1974, is an Italian-born professor at Cambridge and director at Human Technopole, known for the INTERVAL trial and SCORE2 risk algorithms.

Emanuele Zucca

Emanuele Zucca, born 1957 in Turin, is a Swiss-Italian medical oncologist and hematologist at IOSI in Bellinzona, co-founder and scientific director of the International Extranodal Lymphoma Study Group since 1998.

Emelia J. Benjamin

Emelia J. Benjamin is an American cardiologist and cardiovascular epidemiologist at Boston University and a Framingham Heart Study investigator since 1988, known for research on atrial fibrillation.