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Evgeny M. Zdobnov

Evgeny M. Zdobnov is a Swiss-based computational biologist and full professor at the University of Geneva, known for BUSCO, the widely used genome completeness tool, and OrthoDB.

Evgeny Nudler

Evgeny Nudler is a molecular biologist who studies transcription, DNA repair, and bacterial stress signaling, holding a professorship at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and an HHMI appointment since 2013.

Eviatar Nevo

Eviatar Nevo (אביתר נבו; born 1929) is an Israeli evolutionary biologist and professor emeritus at the University of Haifa, known for research on blind mole rat speciation.

Eville Gorham

Eville Gorham (1925–2020) was a Canadian-born ecologist and biogeochemist who spent 36 years at the University of Minnesota and is widely called the "grandfather of acid rain research".

Ewald Hering

Ewald Hering, born Karl Ewald Konstantin Hering (1834–1918), was a German physiologist who discovered the Hering–Breuer reflex and proposed the opponent-process theory of color vision.

Ewald Weibel

Ewald Weibel (1929–2019) was a Swiss anatomist and cell biologist who pioneered stereology, applied it to the lung, and led the University of Bern's anatomy institute.

Ewan C. Goligher

Ewan C. Goligher, also published as Ewan Goligher, is a Canadian clinician-scientist at the University of Toronto who studies how mechanical ventilation injures the lungs and diaphragm.

Ewan R. Pearson

Ewan R. Pearson is a British physician-scientist, Professor of Diabetic Medicine at the University of Dundee, known for showing that a patient's genetic diagnosis determines which diabetes drug works.

Eyal C. Attar

Eyal C. Attar is a hematologist-oncologist who treated leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes at Massachusetts General Hospital, then led hematology drug development at Agios and Aprea Therapeutics.

Eyal Gottlieb

Eyal Gottlieb is a cancer metabolism researcher, Vice President for Research at MD Anderson Cancer Center since 2023, known for work on oncometabolites and acetate metabolism in cancer cells.

Eyal Raz

Eyal Raz is a professor emeritus of medicine at the University of California, San Diego, whose immunostimulatory DNA adjuvant work led to the approved hepatitis B vaccine HEPLISAV-B.

Eytan Ruppin

Eytan Ruppin is a computational biologist and cancer data scientist known for AI methods predicting individual cancer patients' therapy responses, founding the NCI's Cancer Data Science Laboratory in 2018.

Ezekiel Emanuel

Ezekiel J. Emanuel, American oncologist and bioethicist, founding chair of NIH's Department of Bioethics (1997–2011), Affordable Care Act drafter, Penn Levy University Professor, brother of Rahm Emanuel, author of "Why I Hope to Die at 75."

Ezra E.W. Cohen

Ezra E.W. Cohen is a Canadian-trained medical oncologist specializing in head and neck cancer, a professor at UC San Diego and Tempus AI's oncology chief medical officer.

F. Anthony Greco

F. Anthony Greco is an American medical oncologist in Nashville known for lung cancer and cancer of unknown primary research, and for co-founding the Sarah Cannon Research Institute.

F. Daniel Foley

F. Daniel Foley (1933–2003) was an American pathologist at the US Army Institute of Surgical Research, known for describing herpesvirus infection in burned patients in 1970.

F. Estelle R. Simons

F. Estelle R. Simons, born Frances Estelle Reed Simons, was a Canadian allergist and clinical immunologist at the University of Manitoba known for research on H1-antihistamines in children and anaphylaxis.

F. Henry Ellis

F. Henry Ellis (1920–2011) was an American thoracic surgeon who helped establish cardiac surgery at the Mayo Clinic and became a leading esophageal authority in Boston.

F. John Gennari

F. John Gennari is an American nephrologist at the University of Vermont known for widely cited New England Journal of Medicine reviews on acid-base and electrolyte disorders.

F. Mason Sones

F. Mason Sones was an American physician at the Cleveland Clinic who performed the first selective coronary arteriogram in 1958, developed cine coronary arteriography, and won the 1983 Lasker Award.

F. Nina Papavasiliou

F. Nina Papavasiliou is a Greek-born immunologist known for work on somatic hypermutation and trypanosome antigenic variation, and head of the Immune Diversity division at DKFZ Heidelberg since 2016.

F. Peter Guengerich

F. Peter Guengerich, born 1949, is an American biochemist at Vanderbilt University known for five decades of work on cytochrome P450 enzymes, which metabolize most drugs.

F. Stephen Hodi Jr.

F. Stephen Hodi Jr. is an American medical oncologist who directs the Melanoma Center at Dana-Farber and led the first human trial of ipilimumab, the first approved checkpoint inhibitor for cancer.

F. Stuart Chapin

F. Stuart Chapin III, known as Terry Chapin, is an American ecosystem ecologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks who studies arctic carbon and methane cycling.

F. Ulrich Hartl

F. Ulrich Hartl, also Franz-Ulrich Hartl, is a German biochemist at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry who established that protein folding inside cells requires molecular chaperones.

F. William Studier

F. William Studier (Frederick William Studier), born 1936, is an American molecular biologist at Brookhaven National Laboratory who developed the widely used T7 protein expression system.

F.H. Ruddle

F.H. Ruddle, known as Frank Ruddle, was a Yale molecular geneticist who pioneered human gene mapping and created the first transgenic mammal, a mouse carrying foreign DNA.

F.R. Salemme

F.R. Salemme (Francis R. Salemme) is a protein crystallographer known for work on cytochromes, β-sheets, and four-α-helical bundles, with affiliations at the University of Arizona and DuPont.

Fabian Theis

Fabian J. Theis, born 1976, is a German computational biologist who directs the Institute of Computational Biology at Helmholtz Munich and is known for the single-cell software Scanpy.

Fabien Zoulim

Fabien Zoulim is a French hepatologist and virologist known for hepatitis B cure research, who heads hepatology at the Hospices Civils de Lyon and co-founded ICE-HBV.