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Eugene Floyd DuBois

Eugene Floyd DuBois (1882–1959) was an American physician and clinical physiologist at Cornell who standardized basal metabolic rate measurement and devised the 1916 DuBois body-surface-area formula still used in medicine.

Eugène Gley

Eugène Gley (1857–1930) was a French physiologist, professor at the Collège de France, who first assigned the parathyroid glands a vital role and became a cofounder of organotherapy and endocrinology.

Eugene H. Blackstone

Eugene H. Blackstone is an American physician-investigator at the Cleveland Clinic who works in cardiothoracic surgery outcomes research and received the American Association for Thoracic Surgery's 2013 Scientific Achievement Award.

Eugene J. Van Scott

Eugene J. Van Scott (1922–2025) was an American dermatologist who founded the National Cancer Institute's dermatology branch and developed the first effective drug treatment for cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.

Eugene Lindsay Opie

Eugene Lindsay Opie (1873–1971) was an American pathologist who first linked the pancreatic islets of Langerhans to diabetes and spent more than 70 years in research.

Eugene M. Johnson

Eugene M. Johnson Jr., known as Gene Johnson, is an American neuroscientist and professor at Washington University School of Medicine who studies neuronal cell death and neurotrophic factors.

Eugene Odum

Eugene Odum (1913–2002) was an American ecosystem ecologist at the University of Georgia, widely called the father of modern ecology for his 1953 textbook Fundamentals of Ecology.

Eugene P. Cronkite

Eugene P. Cronkite (1914–2001) was an American hematologist and radiation biologist at Brookhaven National Laboratory who pioneered blood cell kinetics, studied radiation injury, and led the American Society of Hematology in 1971.

Eugene P. DiMagno

Eugene P. DiMagno (1937–2025) was an American gastroenterologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, whose research defined pancreatic enzyme replacement dosing and introduced endoscopic ultrasound to medicine.

Eugene P. Kennedy

Eugene Patrick Kennedy (1919–2011) was an American biochemist at Harvard Medical School known for the Kennedy pathway, the main route of membrane phospholipid synthesis in mammalian cells.

Eugene P. Rhee

Eugene P. Rhee is an American nephrologist and physician-scientist who serves as Chief of the Nephrology Division at Massachusetts General Hospital and is a Harvard professor.

Eugene R. Passamani

Eugene R. Passamani, also known as Eugene Passamani, was an American cardiologist and clinical trialist who spent about 20 years at NIH in Bethesda, Maryland.

Eugene Roberts (neurobiochemist)

Eugene Roberts, born Evgeny Rabinowitch (1920–2016), was an American neurobiochemist at City of Hope in California whose 1949 discovery of GABA in the brain established it as the major inhibitory neurotransmitter.

Eugene V. Koonin

Eugene V. Koonin is a computational evolutionary biologist who leads the Evolutionary Genomics Research Group at the NIH's NCBI in Bethesda, Maryland, known for the COGs database and CRISPR-Cas classification.

Eugene W. Nester

Eugene W. Nester is an American microbiologist and University of Washington professor emeritus whose laboratory showed that Agrobacterium causes crown gall disease by transferring DNA into plant cells.

Eugenia del Pino

Eugenia del Pino is an Ecuadorian developmental biologist who studied the marsupial frogs of Ecuador for four decades and was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2006.

Eugenia Russinova

Eugenia Russinova, known as Jenny Russinova, is a Bulgarian plant cell biologist and VIB group leader in Ghent, Belgium, since 2006, known for work on brassinosteroid receptors and endocytosis.

Eugenio Centanni

Eugenio Centanni (1863–1942) was an Italian general pathologist and immunologist who, with Ezio Savonuzzi, identified the fowl plague virus at Ferrara in 1901, the fourth virus ever discovered.

Eugenio Mercuri

Eugenio Mercuri, born in 1963, is an Italian pediatric neurologist who directs child neuropsychiatry at the Gemelli hospital in Rome and led trials in spinal muscular atrophy.

Eugenio Picano

Eugenio Picano, born in Cassino in 1958, is an Italian cardiologist at the CNR Institute of Clinical Physiology in Pisa, known for stress echocardiography and lung ultrasound.

Eui-Hwan Chung (정의환)

Eui-Hwan Chung (정의환) is a South Korean plant immunologist and associate professor at Korea University in Seoul, known for discoveries about plant immune receptor activation.

Eui‐Cheol Shin

Eui-Cheol Shin (신의철) is a South Korean physician-scientist and immunologist, a professor at KAIST in Daejeon known for work on bystander activation of CD8+ T cells.

Eula Bingham

Eula Bingham (1929–2020) was an American toxicologist at the University of Cincinnati who led OSHA from 1977 to 1981, setting stringent standards protecting workers from hazardous materials.

Eunice L. Kwak

Eunice L. Kwak is an American medical oncologist who led the 2010 phase 1 trial of crizotinib for ALK-positive lung cancer at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Eunjoon Kim

Eunjoon Kim (김은준) is a South Korean neuroscientist, professor at KAIST in Daejeon and director of the IBS Center for Synaptic Brain Dysfunctions, studying synaptopathy.

Eunyong Park

Eunyong Park is a structural cell biologist and associate professor at UC Berkeley, known for cryo-EM structures of protein translocation channels such as SecY, Sec61, and TOM.

Eva A. Turley

Eva Ann Turley is a Canadian cell biologist who discovered and cloned RHAMM, a hyaluronan receptor, and showed how hyaluronan signaling drives tumor progression and wound repair.

Eva Harris

Eva Harris is an American virologist at UC Berkeley known for her work on dengue and Zika viruses and for building scientific capacity in developing countries.

Eva Hernando

Eva Hernando, full name Eva M. Hernando-Monge, is a Spanish-born cancer biologist and tenured professor of pathology and dermatology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine who studies melanoma metastasis.

Eva J. Neer

Eva J. Neer, born Eva Julia Augenblick, was an American physician-biochemist at Harvard Medical School who discovered the brain G protein Go and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1998.