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Eva Kondorosi

Eva Kondorosi (Kondorosi Éva), born 1948 in Budapest, is a Hungarian and French plant molecular biologist who established the genetics of the Rhizobium–legume symbiosis and received the 2018 Balzan Prize.

Eva Lonn

Eva Lonn is a Canadian cardiologist and clinical trialist, Professor of Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, who led the HOPE-3 cholesterol-lowering trial published in 2016.

Eva Lucille Feldman

Eva Lucille Feldman is an American neurologist and physician-scientist at Michigan Medicine known for research on ALS prevention, diabetic neuropathy, and stem cell therapy trials.

Eva Maria Novoa

Eva Maria Novoa is a Spanish RNA biologist who leads the Epitranscriptomics and RNA Dynamics lab at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, and an ICREA Research Professor since 2024.

Éva Mezey

Éva Mezey, also published as Eva Mezey, is a Hungarian-born physician-scientist who heads the Adult Stem Cell Section at NIH's NIDCR in Bethesda, Maryland, known for showing that transplanted bone marrow cells enter the brain.

Eva Negri

Eva Negri is an Italian cancer epidemiologist, associate professor at the University of Bologna since 2021, who co-leads the annual European cancer mortality prediction papers in Annals of Oncology.

Eva Nogales

Eva Nogales, born Evangelina Nogales De La Morena, is a Spanish-born American structural biologist at UC Berkeley and HHMI investigator known for the first atomic structure of tubulin.

Eva van Rooij

Eva van Rooij (born 1977) is a Dutch molecular biologist known for discovering roles of microRNAs in heart disease, and a professor of Molecular Cardiology at UMC Utrecht.

Eva-Mari Aro

Eva-Mari Aro, born 1950, is a Finnish plant molecular biologist and professor emerita at the University of Turku, known for research on photodamage and repair of the photosynthetic apparatus.

Evan Calkins

Evan Calkins (1920–2020) was an American rheumatologist and geriatrician who founded the University at Buffalo's Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology in 1978 and researched amyloidosis and rheumatoid arthritis.

Evan E. Eichler

Evan E. Eichler is a human geneticist at the University of Washington whose lab mapped segmental duplications and established copy-number variation as a cause of neurodevelopmental disease.

Evan H. DeLucia

Evan H. DeLucia, also published as E. H. DeLucia, is an American plant biologist and G. William Arends Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Evan M. Hersh

Evan M. Hersh, also known as Evan Hersh, is a physician-scientist in tumor immunology known for measuring immune competence in cancer patients at M. D. Anderson.

Evan Newell

Evan W. Newell is an immunologist and professor at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center who studies human T cells using mass cytometry and developed combinatorial tetramer staining.

Evan S. Dellon

Evan S. Dellon, also published as Evan Dellon, is an American gastroenterologist at UNC Chapel Hill who directs its Center for Esophageal Diseases and Swallowing and studies eosinophilic esophagitis.

Evan Wood

Evan Wood is a Canadian physician, epidemiologist, and addiction medicine specialist at the University of British Columbia, known for HIV research among injection drug users and as a founding principal investigator of Insite.

Evan Z. Macosko

Evan Z. Macosko is an American physician-scientist and computational biologist at the Broad Institute, known for Drop-seq, the 2015 method that made single-cell RNA sequencing cheap and massively parallel.

Evangelia G. Kranias

Evangelia G. Kranias, known as Litsa Kranias, is a Greek-born cardiovascular scientist at the University of Cincinnati whose research established phospholamban as a central regulator of cardiac contraction.

Evangelina Villegas

Evangelina Villegas (1924–2017) was a Mexican cereal chemist at CIMMYT who shared the 2000 World Food Prize for developing quality protein maize, becoming the award's first woman laureate.

Evangelos D. Michelakis

Evangelos D. Michelakis is a Greek-born Canadian cardiologist at the University of Alberta who studies pulmonary hypertension, heart failure, and cancer through mitochondrial metabolism, running the first clinical trials of mitochondria-targeting drugs.

Evangelos N. Moudrianakis

Evangelos N. Moudrianakis (Ευάγγελος Μουδριανάκης) is a Greek-born molecular biologist and Johns Hopkins University professor whose laboratory determined the crystallographic structure of the histone octamer and named the histone fold.

Evanthia Galanis

Evanthia Galanis is a Greek-trained neuro-oncologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for leading the first human testing of oncolytic measles virus against brain tumors.

Evarts Ambrose Graham

Evarts Ambrose Graham was an American surgeon at Washington University in St. Louis who performed the first successful removal of an entire lung for lung cancer in 1933.

Eve Higginbotham

Eve Higginbotham is an American glaucoma specialist and academic administrator who in 1994 became the first woman to head a university-based ophthalmology department in the United States.

Eve Marder

Eve Marder, born 1948, is an American neuroscientist at Brandeis University who studies how small neural circuits produce stable activity, using the stomatogastric ganglion of lobsters and crabs.

Eve Van Cauter

Eve Van Cauter is a Belgian-trained endocrinologist and sleep researcher, Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago, whose laboratory established insufficient sleep as a metabolic risk factor.

Evelyn M. Witkin

Evelyn M. Witkin was an American bacterial geneticist who discovered the SOS response, the set of genes E. coli switches on when its DNA is damaged, and won the 2015 Lasker Award.

Everett E. Vokes

Everett E. Vokes is an American medical oncologist specializing in lung and head and neck cancer, chair of medicine at the University of Chicago, and president of ASCO in 2021–2022.

Everett Peter Greenberg

Everett Peter Greenberg (born 1948) is an American microbiologist at the University of Washington who founded quorum sensing and shared the 2015 Shaw Prize for elucidating its molecular mechanism.

Evgeny Cherstvoy

Evgeny Cherstvoy (Евгений Черствый) was a Belarusian pediatric pathologist and medical geneticist at the Minsk Medical Institute, known for the von Voss-Cherstvoy syndrome and Chernobyl thyroid cancer research.