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Emily S. Bernhardt

Emily S. Bernhardt is an American ecosystem ecologist and biogeochemist known for tracking carbon, nutrients, and contaminants in rivers and wetlands, and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.

Emily Y. Chew

Emily Y. Chew is an ophthalmologist who directs the Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications at the National Eye Institute and chairs the AREDS2 trial.

Emma C. Teeling

Emma C. Teeling is an Irish zoologist and geneticist, Full Professor of Zoology at University College Dublin, who studies bat genomes to understand bats' exceptional longevity.

Emma Lundberg (cell biologist)

Emma Lundberg is a Swedish cell biologist and spatial proteomics researcher who directs the Cell Atlas of the Human Protein Atlas and is an associate professor at Stanford University.

Emma R. Schachner

Emma R. Schachner is an American evolutionary biologist and paleontologist at the University of Florida, known for research on dinosaur lungs and, in 2024, on how soaring birds use air sacs for flight.

Emma Whitelaw

Emma Whitelaw is an Australian molecular geneticist known for pioneering transgenerational epigenetic inheritance in mammals; her 1999 agouti mouse paper was the first demonstration in mammals.

Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis

Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis, known as Manolis Dermitzakis, is a Greek geneticist who studies population genomics and regulatory variation, and is president of the Qatar Precision Health Institute.

Emmanuel D. Levy

Emmanuel D. Levy is a structural and computational biologist at the University of Geneva, known for showing that single point mutations can push folded proteins into self-assembled structures.

Emmanuel Farber

Emmanuel Farber (1918–2014) was a Canadian pathologist and biochemist who established the biochemical analysis of chemical carcinogenesis and led pathology at the University of Toronto from 1975 to 1985.

Emmanuel Fauré-Frémiet

Emmanuel Fauré-Frémiet (1883–1971) was a French biologist who held the chair of comparative embryology at the Collège de France from 1928 to 1954 and became a central figure in ciliate protozoology.

Emmanuel Hédon

Emmanuel Hédon (1863–1933) was a French physician and physiologist, professor at Montpellier, who showed that canine diabetes could be cured by pancreas implants or transfusion.

Emmanuel L. Bravo

Emmanuel L. Bravo is an endocrinologist and nephrologist at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, known for his research on endocrine hypertension and the clonidine-suppression test for pheochromocytoma.

Emmanuel Mignot

Emmanuel Mignot is a French-born physician-scientist who directs the Stanford Center for Narcolepsy and discovered that narcolepsy results from immune destruction of hypocretin-producing neurons, work honored with the 2023 Breakthrough Prize and 2026 Lasker Award.

Emmanuel S. Antonarakis

Emmanuel S. Antonarakis (Εμμανουήλ Αντωναράκης) is a medical oncologist known for discovering that the AR-V7 splice variant predicts resistance to enzalutamide and abiraterone in prostate cancer.

Emmanuela Gakidou

Emmanuela Gakidou is a Greek-born health metrics scientist who co-founded the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and leads Global Burden of Disease research on obesity and violence against women.

Emmanuelle Charpentier

Emmanuelle Charpentier, born 1968 in France, is a French microbiologist who co-developed CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing and shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jennifer Doudna.

Emmanuelle Passegué

Emmanuelle Passegué is a stem cell biologist known for showing that loss of JunB in blood stem cells causes a leukemia-like disease, and for linking inflammation to stem cell aging.

Emmy Klieneberger-Nobel

Emmy Klieneberger-Nobel (1892–1985) was a German-born British microbiologist who, after fleeing Nazi persecution, discovered bacterial L-forms at the Lister Institute in London and co-discovered the mycoplasmas.

Endel Tulving

Endel Tulving (1927–2023) was an Estonian–Canadian cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Toronto who distinguished episodic from semantic memory and proposed the encoding specificity principle.

Endocrinologists

Endocrinologists: physicians specializing in diagnosis and treatment of gland and hormone disorders, including diabetes, thyroid disease, obesity, and osteoporosis; trained via internal medicine residency plus endocrinology fellowship, facing workforce shortages in the US and Europe.

Endre Hőgyes

Endre Hőgyes (1847–1906) was a Hungarian physician and bacteriologist who founded Hungary's Pasteur Institute in Budapest in 1890 and modified Pasteur's rabies vaccine with a safer dilution method.

Eng H. Lo

Eng H. Lo, also published as Eng Lo, is a neuroscientist who studies stroke and traumatic brain injury at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he leads the Neuroprotection Research Laboratory.

Eng M. Tan

Eng M. Tan, born Eng Meng Tan (1926–2024), was a Malaysian-born American physician-scientist at Scripps Research whose discovery of autoantibody markers transformed the diagnosis of lupus and scleroderma.

Enid MacRobbie

Enid MacRobbie (1931–2024) was a British plant biophysicist, Professor of Plant Biophysics at Cambridge and Fellow of Girton College, known for measuring ion fluxes in plant cells with radioactive tracers.

Enric Sala

Enric Sala is a Spanish marine ecologist who left a Scripps professorship in 2008 to lead National Geographic's Pristine Seas, which has helped protect over 6.9 million square kilometers of ocean.

Enrico Cappellini

Enrico Cappellini is an Italian paleoproteomics researcher and professor at the University of Copenhagen, known for sequencing ancient proteins from fossils, including Homo antecessor and Homo naledi enamel.

Enrico Coen

Enrico S. Coen, born in Liverpool in 1957, is a British plant molecular geneticist at the John Innes Centre whose snapdragon mutant screens helped establish the ABC model of flower development.

Enrico Di Cera

Enrico Di Cera is an American biochemist and physician, chairman of biochemistry at Saint Louis University, known for over three decades of work on the blood-clotting enzyme thrombin.

Enrico Schwabe

Enrico Schwabe is a malacologist at the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology in Munich whose research centers on chiton systematics and deep-sea molluscs; the sensory Schwabe organ is named after him.

Enrico Tiacci

Enrico Tiacci is an Italian hematologist and associate professor at the University of Perugia known for identifying BRAF-V600E as the cause of hairy cell leukemia in 2011.