Life and health scientists

Erik S.G. Stroes

Erik S.G. Stroes is a Dutch vascular internist and professor of Vascular Medicine at Amsterdam UMC, known for antisense trials in lipidology and hereditary angioedema.

Erik Sahai

Erik Sahai is a cancer biologist who leads the Tumour Cell Biology Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in London, studying how cancer spreads and resists treatment.

Erik Selsing

Erik Selsing is an immunologist at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston whose 1981 Cell paper showed that expressed antibody genes carry somatic mutations absent from germline DNA.

Erik Trinkaus

Erik Trinkaus is an American paleoanthropologist, Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor Emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis, known for his work on Neandertal biology and the Lagar Velho child.

Erika L. Pearce

Erika L. Pearce (born 1972) is an American immunologist who studies immunometabolism, how metabolism controls T cells, and directs cancer immunology research at Johns Hopkins University.

Erika L.F. Holzbaur

Erika L.F. Holzbaur, also known as Erika Holzbaur, is an American cell biologist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies molecular motors, axonal transport, and neurodegeneration.

Erika von Mutius

Erika von Mutius, born 1957, is a German pediatrician and epidemiologist whose research on farming environments reshaped the hygiene hypothesis, showing farm children have lower asthma rates.

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Erika J. Wolf is an American clinical research psychologist and Principal Investigator at the National Center for PTSD, VA Boston, known for research on genetic and environmental contributors to PTSD.

Erin A. Bohula

Erin A. Bohula is an American critical care cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, known for leading the CAMELLIA-TIMI 61 and VESALIUS-CV trials.

Erin J. Adams

Erin J. Adams is an American immunologist and structural biologist at the University of Chicago, known for structural studies of unconventional T cells and nonclassical MHC-like proteins.

Erin K. O’Shea

Erin K. O'Shea is an American molecular and systems biologist who became the first woman president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) in 2016.

Erin Schuman

Erin M. Schuman is an American neurobiologist who showed that neurons make proteins locally in their dendrites, and directs the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt.

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Erinn Muller

Erinn Muller is a coral reef scientist at Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida, who studies coral disease, resilience, and restoration on Florida's Coral Reef.

Erkki Ruoslahti

Erkki Ruoslahti, born 1940 in Imatra, Finland, is a cancer biologist who co-discovered fibronectin, discovered the RGD cell attachment sequence, helped isolate integrins, and won the 2022 Lasker Award.

Erling Seeberg

Erling Christen Seeberg (1946–2004) was a biochemist whose 1970s work showed that three uvr gene products cut ultraviolet-damaged DNA in E. coli, cited in the 2015 Nobel Prize background.

Ermias Kebreab

Ermias Kebreab is an Eritrea-born animal scientist at the University of California, Davis, known for trials showing seaweed and 3-NOP feed additives cut cattle methane emissions.

Erminio Costa

Erminio Costa (1924–2009) was an Italian-born American neuropharmacologist who showed that benzodiazepines act on the GABAA receptor, identified neurosteroids, and reported reelin down-regulation in schizophrenia.

Ernest B. Hook

Ernest B. Hook is an American medical geneticist and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, known for proposing terathanasia and studying fetal deaths among chromosomally abnormal fetuses.

Ernest Basil Verney

Ernest Basil Verney (1894–1967) was a British physiologist and pharmacologist who demonstrated continuous secretion of antidiuretic hormone and introduced the osmoreceptor concept in his 1947 Croonian Lecture.

Ernest Beutler

Ernest Beutler (1928–2008) was a German-born American hematologist and physician-scientist who chaired medicine at City of Hope and led research at Scripps, transforming treatment of Gaucher disease and G6PD deficiency.

Ernest Craige

Ernest Craige (1918–2008) was an American cardiologist and first chief of the Division of Cardiology at UNC Chapel Hill, known for New England Journal of Medicine studies on heart sounds and echocardiography.

Ernest D. Laue

Ernest D. Laue, also known as Ernest Laue, is a structural biologist and Emeritus Professor at Cambridge, known for NuRD chromatin studies and 3D genome structures from single cells.

Ernest Dupré

Ernest Dupré (1862–1921) was a French psychiatrist and forensic physician who coined mythomanie and puérilisme mental, ending his career in the chair of mental diseases at Sainte-Anne.

Ernest Edward Tyzzer

Ernest Edward Tyzzer (1875–1965) was an American physician and pathologist at Harvard Medical School, known for discovering Tyzzer's disease, foundational work on bird parasites, and early tumor-immunity research.

Ernest Fourneau

Ernest Fourneau (1872–1949) was a French pharmacist and chemist who founded therapeutic chemistry in France, designing the anesthetic Stovaïne and directing drug research at the Institut Pasteur.

Ernest Fraenkel

Ernest Fraenkel is a computational systems biologist and Grover M. Hermann Professor at MIT who studies how molecular networks go wrong in diseases including ALS and cancer.

Ernest G. Peralta

Ernest G. Peralta (1959–1999) was an American molecular biologist and Harvard professor who cloned muscarinic receptors and showed how G proteins regulate potassium channels; he died of brain cancer at 40.

Ernest Gale

Ernest Frederick Gale (1914–2005) was a British microbiologist at Cambridge who recast bacteria as chemical machines, directing the MRC Unit for Chemical Microbiology and entering the Royal Society in 1953.

Ernest Hartmann

Ernest Hartmann, also known as Ernest L. Hartmann, was an Austrian-born American psychiatrist and sleep and dream researcher, professor of psychiatry at Tufts University and creator of the Boundary Questionnaire.