Life and health scientists

Eric Karsenti

Éric Karsenti, born 1948 in Paris, is a French cell biologist who worked at EMBL in Heidelberg, showed that mitotic spindles self-organize around chromatin, and led the Tara Oceans expedition.

Eric Klann is a neuroscientist and Director of the Center for Neural Science at New York University who studies how protein synthesis underlies long-term memory and goes wrong in fragile X syndrome and Alzheimer's disease.

Eric L. Charnov

Eric L. Charnov is an American evolutionary ecologist at the University of New Mexico and Utah, known for optimal foraging theory, sex allocation, and metabolic ecology.

Eric Lander

Eric Lander, American mathematician-turned-geneticist, Human Genome Project principal leader, founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, PCAST co-chair under Obama, and Biden's Cabinet-level science advisor who resigned in 2022 after a workplace-conduct investigation.

Eric Lawitz

Eric Lawitz (Eric J. Lawitz) is an American hepatologist and clinical trialist known for leading phase 3 sofosbuvir trials that replaced interferon-based hepatitis C therapy with all-oral antiviral regimens.

Eric M. Reiman

Eric M. Reiman is an American psychiatrist and brain imaging researcher who leads Banner Alzheimer's Institute in Phoenix and pioneered PET detection of Alzheimer's disease decades before symptoms.

Eric Meffre

Eric Meffre is a French-trained immunologist and Professor of Medicine at Stanford University since 2022, known for defining the B cell tolerance checkpoints that remove autoreactive cells in humans.

Eric Miska

Eric Miska is a British-based RNA biologist at the University of Cambridge known for showing that small RNAs carry heritable information across generations in C. elegans.

Eric Morrow

Eric Morrow is an American physician-scientist and psychiatrist at Brown University whose research identifies genes disrupted in autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders, directing Bradley Hospital's genetics research program.

Eric N. Olson

Eric N. Olson, born in 1955, is an American molecular biologist who founded the molecular biology department at UT Southwestern and studies the genetic control of muscle and heart development and disease.

Eric N. Prystowsky

Eric N. Prystowsky is an American cardiac electrophysiologist who directs the Cardiac Arrhythmia Service at Ascension St. Vincent in Indianapolis and was president of the Heart Rhythm Society in 2001–2002.

Eric O. Long

Eric O. Long is an American immunologist who heads the Molecular and Cellular Immunology Section at NIAID, NIH, and is known for identifying NK cell inhibitory receptors.

Eric Oldfield (chemist)

Eric Oldfield is a British-born chemist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for developing deuterium NMR methods for membranes and for discovering new antibiotics and anti-cancer drugs.

Eric P. Hoffman

Eric P. Hoffman is an American human geneticist known for identifying dystrophin, the protein missing in Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and for developing vamorolone, approved by the FDA in 2023.

Eric P. Skaar

Eric P. Skaar is an American microbiologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center who studies nutritional immunity, how hosts starve bacteria of metals like zinc and manganese.

Eric P. Winer

Eric P. Winer is an American medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer who became Director of Yale Cancer Center and Physician-in-Chief of Smilow Cancer Hospital in 2022.

Eric Post

Eric Post is an American climate change ecologist and professor at UC Davis, known for Arctic research on phenology and warming effects on plant and herbivore populations.

Éric Pujade-Lauraine

Éric Pujade-Lauraine is a French gynecologic oncologist and professor of medical oncology who heads the Women Cancer department at Hôpital Hôtel-Dieu in Paris and founded the GINECO trial group.

Eric R Schreiter

Eric R Schreiter is a protein engineer and neuroscientist who has led a laboratory at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus since 2015, best known for developing the GCaMP calcium indicators.

Eric R. Fearon

Eric R. Fearon, also published as Eric Fearon, is an American physician-scientist at the University of Michigan who studies the genetics of colorectal and other cancers.

Eric R. Kandel

Eric R. Kandel, also known as Eric Kandel, is an American neuroscientist at Columbia University who studies the molecular mechanisms of learning and memory and shared the 2000 Nobel Prize.

Éric Ravussin

Éric Ravussin is an obesity and energy metabolism physiologist who has led Pennington Biomedical Research Center's Human Translational Physiology Laboratory since 2001 and helped lead the CALERIE caloric-restriction trial.

Éric Raymond

Éric Raymond is a French medical oncologist who heads oncology at Hôpital Paris Saint-Joseph and led the 2011 phase 3 sunitinib trial in pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors.

Eric S. Weinberg

Eric S. Weinberg, also Eric Weinberg (1942/43–2026), was an American molecular developmental biologist and professor emeritus at Penn, known for sea urchin histone gene regulation and zebrafish developmental genetics.

Eric Schadt

Eric Schadt is an American computational biologist known for network genomics, a professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and founder of the genetic testing company Sema4.

Eric Selker

Eric Selker is an American molecular biologist at the University of Oregon who discovered repeat-induced point mutation (RIP), a genome defense system in the fungus Neurospora crassa.

Eric T. Kool

Eric T. Kool, also known as Eric Kool, is an American chemical biologist and the Daubert Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1999.

Eric Tran

Eric Tran is a tumor immunologist who leads the Adoptive Cell Therapy Laboratory at Providence Cancer Institute in Portland, Oregon, and showed that T cells can attack KRAS-mutant cancers.

Éric Van Belle

Éric Van Belle (born 1964) is a French interventional cardiologist who directs interventional cardiology at Lille University Hospital and is known for von Willebrand factor research.