Life and health scientists

Eric Verdin

Eric Verdin is a Belgian-born physician-scientist studying how metabolism drives aging, known for sirtuin and NAD+ research and as president and CEO of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging since 2016.

Éric Vivier

Éric Vivier is a French immunologist specializing in natural killer cells and innate lymphoid cells, professor in Marseille and co-founder of the biotech company Innate Pharma.

Éric Westhof

Éric Westhof, born in 1948, is a French molecular biologist who spent his career at CNRS and the IBMC in Strasbourg, known for the geometric classification of RNA base pairs and the concept of isostericity.

Eric Wieschaus

Eric F. Wieschaus, born 1947 in South Bend, Indiana, is an American developmental biologist who shared the 1995 Nobel Prize for discoveries on the genetic control of embryonic development.

Erica E. Marsh

Erica E. Marsh is an American reproductive endocrinologist at the University of Michigan, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2024 for fibroids research.

Erica N. Larschan

Erica Nicole Larschan is an American chromatin and gene-regulation biologist at Brown University, known for discovering the CLAMP protein, developing the MACC accessibility metric, and receiving a 2012 PECASE award.

Erica O. Saphire

Erica Ollmann Saphire is an American structural biologist who determines structures of Ebola and Lassa virus proteins and antibodies, and is President and CEO of the La Jolla Institute for Immunology.

Erica Spackman

Erica Spackman is a veterinary virologist at the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Athens, Georgia, who developed real-time PCR assays for detecting avian influenza and Newcastle disease.

Erich A. Nigg

Erich A. Nigg (born 1952) is a Swiss cell biologist known for research on centrosomes and chromosome segregation, and director of the Biozentrum in Basel.

Erich D. Jarvis

Erich D. Jarvis is an American neuroscientist at Rockefeller University who studies vocal learning in songbirds, parrots, and hummingbirds and chairs the Vertebrate Genomes Project.

Erich E. Wanker

Erich E. Wanker, also known as Erich Wanker, is a professor of molecular medicine at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin who studies protein misfolding in neurodegenerative disease.

Erich Franz Eugen Bracht

Erich Franz Eugen Bracht (1882–1969) was a German pathologist and gynecologist remembered for the Bracht maneuver, a 1935 technique for vaginal breech delivery that cut fetal mortality.

Erich Grotewold

Erich Grotewold is an Argentine-trained plant molecular biologist at Michigan State University known for his work on how transcription factors control the flavonoid pigmentation pathways of maize.

Erich Gulbins

Erich Gulbins is a molecular biologist and professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen whose laboratory studies ceramide signaling in bacterial defense, cystic fibrosis, and cancer.

Erich Lexer

Erich Lexer (1867–1937) was a German surgeon who performed the first human whole-joint transplants, wrote standard works on transplantation, and is regarded as a father of plastic surgery.

Erich Rominger

Erich Rominger (1886–1967) was a German pediatrician and professor who held the pediatrics chair at Kiel from 1925 to 1954, researching rickets, anemia, and infant metabolism.

Erik Adolf von Willebrand

Erik Adolf von Willebrand (1870–1949) was a Finnish internist who in 1926 described an inherited bleeding disorder among Åland island families, now called von Willebrand disease.

Erik B. Bloss

Erik B. Bloss is an American neuroscientist studying how synaptic wiring among cortical and hippocampal cell types supports neural computation and behavior; he joined The Jackson Laboratory in Maine in 2019.

Erik C. Böttger

Erik Christian Böttger, born 1956, is a German physician-scientist in medical microbiology, professor emeritus at the University of Zurich, known for describing Mycobacterium genavense in AIDS patients in 1992.

Erik De Clercq

Erik De Clercq is a Belgian physician-scientist, born in 1941, who spent his career at KU Leuven's Rega Institute developing antiviral drugs including tenofovir and brivudine.

Erik Godtfredsen

Erik Godtfredsen (1913–1993) was a Danish ophthalmologist at Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen, whose 454-case study of malignant nasopharyngeal tumors identified the combined sixth and twelfth cranial nerve palsy known as Godtfredsen syndrome.

Erik J. Sontheimer

Erik J. Sontheimer is an American molecular biologist studying RNA interference and CRISPR immunity; his 2008 work showed CRISPR targets DNA, and he co-founded Intellia Therapeutics in 2014.

Erik Johan Widmark

Erik Johan Widmark (1850–1909) was a Swedish ophthalmologist and first professor of eye medicine at the Karolinska Institutet, whose 1889 ultraviolet experiments underpinned Finsen's 1903 Nobel Prize.

Erik Jorpes

Erik Jorpes, born Johan Erik Johansson (1894–1973), was a Finnish-born Swedish biochemist at Karolinska Institutet who determined heparin's chemistry, made it a clinical anticoagulant, and purified secretin and cholecystokinin.

Erik K. Alexander

Erik K. Alexander is an American endocrinologist who is Chief of the Thyroid Section at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Erik L. Hewlett

Erik L. Hewlett is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist and Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the University of Virginia, known for over 40 years of research on Bordetella pertussis toxins.

Erik L. L. Sonnhammer

Erik L. L. Sonnhammer is a Swedish bioinformatician, Professor of Bioinformatics at Stockholm University and Science for Life Laboratory, and creator of the Pfam database.

Erik Lee Snapp

Erik Lee Snapp is an American cell biologist and biophysicist known for quantitative imaging of protein folding in the endoplasmic reticulum and for naming the ER reflux pathway.

Erik Lindahl

Erik Lindahl is a Swedish computational biophysicist and Professor of Biophysics at Stockholm University, known for developing the molecular dynamics software GROMACS and contributing to cryo-EM software RELION.