Life and health scientists

Enrique Rodríguez-Boulan

Enrique Rodríguez-Boulan is an Argentine-American cell biologist known for his 1978 discovery that enveloped viruses bud in a polarized manner from epithelial cells, a model for studying epithelial polarity.

Enrique Rozengurt

Enrique Rozengurt is a molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor of Medicine at UCLA who studies growth factor signaling and discovered the protein kinase D family of enzymes.

Enriqueta Felip

Enriqueta Felip is a Spanish medical oncologist specializing in thoracic cancer who heads the Thoracic Tumors Unit at Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona and led the IMpower010 lung cancer immunotherapy trial.

Eoin O'Brien

Eoin OʼBrien, born in Dublin in 1939, is an Irish cardiologist and hypertension researcher who established 24-hour ambulatory blood-pressure monitoring, holding professorships at RCSI and University College Dublin.

Ephraim Katzir

Ephraim Katzir, also known as Ephraim Katchalski-Katzir, was an Israeli biophysicist at the Weizmann Institute who served as the fourth President of Israel from 1973 to 1978.

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Epidemiologists

Epidemiologists, or disease detectives, are public health professionals who investigate disease patterns, causes, and outbreaks in populations; typically MPH-trained, defined by the CDC/CSTE Applied Epidemiology Competencies, updated in 2023.

Eran Elinav

Eran Elinav is an Israeli physician-scientist who studies how the gut microbiome interacts with the human body, heading the Department of Systems Immunology at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel.

Eran Halperin

Eran Halperin is a computational biologist and statistical geneticist who develops machine learning methods for genomic data, and since 2026 has been a professor at New York University's Courant Institute.

Eran Pichersky

Eran Pichersky is a plant biochemist and emeritus professor at the University of Michigan known for research on how plants make volatile scent and flavor compounds.

Eran Segal

Eran Segal is an Israeli computational biologist, born in Tel Aviv in 1973, who is a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science known for personalized nutrition research.

Erez Raz

Erez Raz is an Israeli-born developmental and cell biologist, professor and institute director at the University of Münster, known for showing that chemokine SDF-1 guides zebrafish germ cell migration.

Eric A. Appel

Eric A. Appel is an American materials scientist and bioengineer, Associate Professor at Stanford University, known for injectable hydrogels enabling months-long drug release, single-dose subunit vaccines, and wildfire-protective gels.

Eric A. Barnard

Eric A. Barnard, usually cited as E. A. Barnard, was a British molecular neuroscientist elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1981 for work on neurotransmitter receptors.

Eric A. Davidson

Eric A. Davidson is an American biogeochemist known for work on soil carbon decomposition and nitrous oxide, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland's Appalachian Laboratory.

Eric A. Engels

Eric A. Engels is an American cancer epidemiologist at the National Cancer Institute who leads studies of cancer risk in people with HIV and transplant recipients.

Eric A. Espiner

Eric A. Espiner is a New Zealand endocrinologist and Emeritus Professor at the Christchurch Heart Institute, University of Otago, known for research on aldosterone and the natriuretic peptides.

Eric A. Newman

Eric A. Newman is a neuroscientist and Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota, a leader in glial cell biology and glial regulation of brain blood flow.

Eric A. Rose

Eric A. Rose is an American cardiothoracic surgeon who performed the world's first successful pediatric heart transplant in 1984 and led the REMATCH trial, which established LVADs as long-term therapy for end-stage heart failure.

Eric A. Schon

Eric A. Schon is an American molecular biologist and geneticist at Columbia University, the Lewis P. Rowland Professor Emeritus of Neurology, who studies mitochondrial disease.

Eric A. Shoubridge

Eric A. Shoubridge, born 1951, is a molecular geneticist at McGill's Montreal Neurological Institute known for research on mitochondrial respiratory chain defects and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Eric Alm

Eric J. Alm is a computational biologist and Professor of Biological Engineering at MIT who studies the human gut microbiome and helped launch OpenBiome and Finch Therapeutics.

Eric B. Kmiec

Eric B. Kmiec is an American molecular biologist who pioneered targeted gene repair and CRISPR genome engineering, directing the Gene Editing Institute at ChristianaCare in Delaware since 2014.

Eric B. Larson

Eric B. Larson is an American general internist and researcher on healthy aging and dementia who led Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute from 2002 to 2019.

Eric B. Rimm

Eric B. Rimm, also known as Eric Rimm, is an American epidemiologist and Harvard professor who studies how diet, alcohol, and lifestyle affect heart disease risk.

Eric Betzig

Eric Betzig is an American biophysicist who shared the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for super-resolved fluorescence microscopy, including his PALM technique, and is a professor at UC Berkeley.

Eric C. Greene

Eric C. Greene is a biochemist and professor at Columbia University who studies genome integrity and homologous DNA recombination, and pioneered the DNA curtains single-molecule imaging platform.

Eric C. Holland

Eric C. Holland is a neurosurgeon and cancer geneticist who directs the Human Biology Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle and is known for mouse models of glioma.

Eric C. Lai

Eric C. Lai is a molecular biologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who studies microRNAs and small RNAs in Drosophila, and defined the mirtron pathway in 2007.

Eric Chang (radiologist)

Eric Y. Chang is an American musculoskeletal radiologist at the VA San Diego Healthcare System and adjunct professor at UCSD who received the 2017 PECASE award.