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Emeran A. Mayer

Emeran A. Mayer is a gastroenterologist and neuroscientist at UCLA known for research on brain–gut–microbiome interactions and irritable bowel syndrome, and author of The Mind-Gut Connection.

Emery Brown

Emery Brown is an American anesthesiologist, statistician, and computational neuroscientist, an Institute Professor at MIT and Harvard professor whose research defines how anesthetic drugs produce general anesthesia.

Emery H. Bresnick

Emery H. Bresnick is a molecular biologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who studies transcriptional regulation of blood cell formation, focusing on GATA transcription factors and leukemia predisposition.

Emi Nishimura

Emi Nishimura (西村 栄美) is a Japanese stem cell biologist at the University of Tokyo known for identifying melanocyte stem cells and linking their loss to hair graying.

Emil Abderhalden

Emil Abderhalden (1877–1950) was a Swiss-German physiologist and biochemist, co-founder of protein biochemistry, discoverer of the essential amino acid distinction, and 20th president of the German Academy Leopoldina from 1932 to 1950.

Emil C. Gotschlich

Emil C. Gotschlich (1935–2023) was an American physician and molecular chemist at Rockefeller University who developed the first effective vaccine against meningococcal meningitis and did foundational research on the gonococcus.

Emil du Bois-Reymond

Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818–1896) was a German physiologist born and died in Berlin, remembered as the founder of electrophysiology, demonstrating the electrical nature of the nerve signal.

Emil Frei

Emil Frei III (1924–2013), known as Emil "Tom" Frei, was an American oncologist called the father of combination chemotherapy, whose work at Dana-Farber helped make childhood leukemia curable.

Emil Holmgren

Emil Holmgren (Emil Algot Holmgren) was a Swedish histologist and professor at the Karolinska Institute, known for studies of nerve cells and the contested trophospongium theory.

Emil J. Freireich

Emil J. Freireich (E J Freireich) was an American hematologist whose work on combination chemotherapy and platelet transfusion raised childhood leukemia five-year survival above 80 percent.

Emil Kraepelin

Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926), German psychiatrist, founder of modern psychiatric nosology; 1899 textbook dichotomy of dementia praecox (schizophrenia) versus manic-depressive insanity (bipolar disorder); also known for eugenic, racist, and anti-Semitic views.

Emil L. Smith

Emil L. Smith (1911–2009) was an American biochemist who pioneered determining amino acid sequences of proteins and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1962.

Emil R. Unanue

Emil R. Unanue (Emil Raphael Unanue, 1934–2022) was a Cuban-born American immunologist who defined antigen presentation, led Washington University's pathology department, and won the 1995 Lasker Award.

Emil Racoviță

Emil Racoviță (1868–1947) was a Romanian biologist and polar explorer who served as naturalist on the Belgian Antarctic Expedition aboard the Belgica and founded biospeleology.

Emil von Behring

Emil Adolf von Behring (1854–1917) was a German bacteriologist who won the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1901 for diphtheria serum therapy.

Emil von Dungern

Emil von Dungern (1867–1961) was a German physician and serologist who, working with Ludwik Hirszfeld at Heidelberg, first demonstrated in 1910 that ABO blood groups are inherited.

Émile Brumpt

Émile Brumpt (1877–1951) was a French physician and zoologist, professor of parasitology at Paris from 1919 to 1948, regarded as the originator of medical parasitology in France.

Émile Duclaux

Émile Duclaux (1840–1904) was a French chemist and microbiologist, Louis Pasteur's first and closest collaborator, who directed the Institut Pasteur from 1895 to 1904 and defended Alfred Dreyfus.

Emile E. Voest

Emile E. Voest is a Dutch medical oncologist, professor at UMC Utrecht and senior group leader at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, known for pan-cancer whole-genome sequencing of metastatic tumors.

Émile Roux

Émile Roux, born Pierre Paul Émile Roux (1853–1933), was a French physician and bacteriologist who discovered diphtheria toxin with Alexandre Yersin in 1888 and developed its antitoxin.

Emili Montserrat

Emili Montserrat is a Spanish hematologist at the University of Barcelona known for research on chronic lymphocytic leukemia and for introducing ZAP-70 as a prognostic marker.

Emiliana Borrelli

Emiliana Borrelli is an Italian-born neuroscientist, trained in Naples, Strasbourg, and at the Salk Institute, known for cloning the dopamine D2 receptor and generating the first mice lacking it.

Emilio Bizzi

Emilio Bizzi is an Italian-born neuroscientist, born in Rome, who joined MIT in 1969 and is known for the equilibrium-point hypothesis and spinal muscle synergies.

Emilio Bouza

Emilio Bouza Santiago, born 1947 in Vilalba, Spain, is a physician-scientist credited with introducing modern infectology there, leading clinical microbiology at Madrid's Hospital Gregorio Marañón from 1984 to 2017.

Emilio Hirsch

Emilio Hirsch is a molecular biologist and professor of experimental biology at the University of Turin, known for showing that PI3K signaling enzymes are distinct drug targets.

Emily Bernstein

Emily Bernstein is an American epigenetics researcher, Professor and Vice Chair of Oncological Sciences at Mount Sinai, known for identifying Dicer and studying ATRX mutations in neuroblastoma.

Emily F. Rothman

Emily F. Rothman is an American public health researcher at Boston University, where she has taught since 2004, known for research on adolescent dating abuse, pornography, and autism.

Emily H. Cheng

Emily H. Cheng is a cancer biologist and physician-scientist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center whose work on apoptosis and the BCL-2 family informs cancer drugs like venetoclax.

Emily L Behrman

Emily L. Behrman is an American evolutionary geneticist and Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Dartmouth College since 2024, known for showing rapid seasonal evolution in wild fruit flies.

Emily Nagoski

Emily Nagoski is an American sex educator and researcher who popularized the dual control model of sexual response through her 2015 bestseller Come as You Are.