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Eric Conn (plant biochemist)

Eric Edward Conn (1923–2017) was an American plant biochemist at the University of California, Davis, known for work on cyanogenesis and phenylpropanoid biosynthesis, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1988.

Eric Courchesne

Eric Courchesne is a neuroscientist and professor of neurosciences at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, known for findings on early brain overgrowth in autism.

Eric D. Bateman

Eric D. Bateman (1947–2025) was a South African respiratory physician at the University of Cape Town who led the GOAL asthma study and chaired the Global Initiative for Asthma.

Eric D. Green

Eric D. Green is an American physician-scientist and medical geneticist who served as the third director of the National Human Genome Research Institute from 2009 to 2025.

Eric D. Siggia

Eric D. Siggia is an American theoretical physicist turned developmental biologist at The Rockefeller University, known for quantitative studies of morphogenesis and human embryonic stem-cell self-organization.

Eric Engel

Eric Engel was a Swiss physician and cytogeneticist known for proposing uniparental disomy in 1980, and for directing medical genetics programs at Vanderbilt and in Geneva.

Eric Fischer

Eric S. Fischer is a structural biologist, professor at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute since 2015, known for structural studies of thalidomide's target cereblon.

Eric Fyrberg

Eric Fyrberg is a molecular biologist who isolated all six actin genes of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and used mutations in them to study muscle assembly.

Eric G. Ball

Eric G. Ball (1904–1979) was an English-born biological chemist at Harvard Medical School who studied biological oxidations, xanthine oxidase, and adipose tissue metabolism, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1948.

Eric G. Neilson

Eric G. Neilson is an American nephrologist and physician-scientist, dean of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine since 2011, known for research on fibroblasts in organ scarring and kidney inflammation.

Eric G. Pamer

Eric G. Pamer is an American immunologist and microbiome researcher, Director of the Duchossois Family Institute at the University of Chicago since 2019, known for work on Listeria immunity and colonization resistance.

Eric Greer

Eric Greer is an American molecular biologist known for work on transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of longevity and N6-adenine DNA methylation, now at Washington University School of Medicine.

Eric H. Baehrecke

Eric H. Baehrecke is an American cell biologist and professor at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts, known for research on autophagy and programmed cell death.

Eric H. Davidson

Eric H. Davidson (1937–2015) was an American developmental biologist at Caltech who showed that animal development is controlled by gene regulatory networks, working chiefly on the sea urchin.

Éric Honoré

Éric Honoré, also published as Eric Honoré, is a French CNRS researcher who leads the Molecular and Integrative Mechanobiology team at the IPMC in Valbonne, France.

Eric Huang

Eric Huang (Eric Yi-Chun Huang, 黃翊群) is an American biotechnology researcher who led Moderna's New Venture Labs and proposed the vaccine pivot that produced Spikevax.

Eric I. Knudsen

Eric I. Knudsen is an American neuroscientist and Stanford professor emeritus who mapped auditory space in the barn owl midbrain and studied how early experience shapes it.

Eric J. Cassell

Eric J. Cassell, born Eric Jonathan Goldstein (1928–2021), was an American physician and bioethicist who argued that relieving suffering is a goal of medicine equal to curing disease.

Eric J. Gustafson

Eric J. Gustafson is an American landscape ecologist who spent 31 years with the USDA Forest Service in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, and received the PECASE award in 1997.

Eric J. Huang

Eric J. Huang is a physician-scientist and neuropathologist who won a 2000 Presidential Early Career Award at UCSF and heads the Department of Pathology & Immunology at WashU Medicine.

Eric J. Nestler

Eric J. Nestler is an American neuroscientist known for identifying the molecular switch ΔFosB in drug addiction and for leading the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Eric J. Richards

Eric J. Richards is a plant molecular biologist and professor at the Boyce Thompson Institute in Ithaca, New York, known for discovering the DDM1 methylation mutant in Arabidopsis.

Eric J. Rubin

Eric J. Rubin, also known as Eric Rubin, is an American physician-scientist who studies tuberculosis at Harvard and became editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine in September 2019.

Eric J. Small

Eric J. Small (Eric Jay Small) is an American medical oncologist at UCSF who developed sipuleucel-T, abiraterone, and apalutamide and became ASCO president in 2025.

Eric J. Sorscher

Eric J. Sorscher is an American physician-scientist and professor of pediatrics at Emory University, known for pioneering research on the cystic fibrosis gene product CFTR.

Eric J. Stanbridge

Eric J. Stanbridge is a molecular biologist at UC Irvine who showed that malignancy in human cancer cells is controlled by recessive tumor suppressor genes.

Eric J. Velazquez

Eric J. Velazquez, also published as Eric Velazquez, is a cardiologist and Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine at Yale, known for the STICH and PIONEER-HF trials.

Eric Jaffe

Eric Jaffe (1942–2024) was an American physician-scientist at Cornell University Medical College who first cultured human endothelial cells in 1973, helping initiate modern vascular biology.

Eric James Denton

Sir Eric James Denton (1923–2007) was a British marine physiologist who explained how fish, squid, and cuttlefish achieve neutral buoyancy, directing the Plymouth laboratory from 1974.

Eric K. Rowinsky

Eric K. Rowinsky is an American clinical cancer researcher whose phase I and pharmacologic trials shaped the development of paclitaxel, irinotecan, erlotinib, and cetuximab, and who led drug development at ImClone Systems and Stemline Therapeutics.