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Fabio Benfenati

Fabio Benfenati, born in Bologna in 1954, is an Italian neurophysiologist at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genova known for work on synaptic transmission and light-sensitive neural interfaces.

Fabio Levi

Fabio Levi, born 1949 in Lausanne, is a Swiss cancer epidemiologist who led the Cancer Epidemiology Unit and the Vaud and Neuchâtel cancer registries at the University of Lausanne.

Fábio Rossi

Fábio Rossi, also known as Fabio M.V. Rossi, is an Italian-trained physician-scientist and professor at the University of British Columbia known for stem cell research.

Fabrice André

Fabrice André, born 1972, is a French medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer, Director of Research at Gustave Roussy since 2020, known for trials of alpelisib and trastuzumab deruxtecan.

Fabrice Barlési

Fabrice Barlési is a French pulmonologist and thoracic oncologist, chief executive of the Gustave Roussy cancer center since 2021, known for the 2016 IFCT molecular profiling study.

Fabrizio d’Adda di Fagagna

Fabrizio d’Adda di Fagagna is an Italian cell and molecular biologist who leads a laboratory at IFOM in Milan, studying DNA damage, cellular senescence, aging, and cancer.

Fabrizio Tagliavini

Fabrizio Tagliavini is an Italian neurologist and neuropathologist at the Carlo Besta Neurological Institute in Milan, known for research on prion diseases and other protein-misfolding dementias.

Facundo Batista

Facundo D. Batista is an Argentinian immunologist who studies B cells, leads research at the Ragon Institute and MIT, and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2025.

Fadi G. Lakkis

Fadi G. Lakkis is a transplantation immunologist and physician-scientist known for work on innate allorecognition and memory T cells in transplant rejection, long at the Starzl Transplantation Institute in Pittsburgh and now at Stanford.

Faith McLellan

Faith McLellan is a medical humanities scholar and medical editor who studied patients' online illness narratives and later became North American Senior Editor of The Lancet.

Faith Osier

Faith Osier is a Kenyan immunologist and pediatrician who studies which antibodies protect against malaria to design blood-stage vaccines, and chairs Immunology at Imperial College London.

Faı̈ez Zannad

Faıëz Zannad, also written Faiez Zannad, is a French cardiologist and clinical trialist at the University of Lorraine who chaired the EMPHASIS-HF and EMPEROR-Reduced heart failure trials.

Fallon R Goodman

Fallon R. Goodman is a clinical psychologist who studies social connection, social anxiety, and loneliness, and directs the Emotion and Resilience Laboratory at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Fan Wang (neuroscientist)

Fan Wang is a neuroscientist, MIT professor, and McGovern Institute investigator who studies brain circuits of touch, pain, and anesthesia, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2026.

Fang Fang

Fang Fang is a Swedish-based neuroepidemiologist and professor of epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, known for research on suicide after cancer diagnosis and ALS risk factors.

Fang Huang (molecular biologist)

Fang Huang is a Chinese-American biophysicist and Reilly Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University, known for whole-cell 4Pi nanoscopy and imaging methods reaching nanoscale resolution deep inside tissues.

Fang‐Jie Zhao

Fang-Jie Zhao (赵方杰) is a Chinese plant nutrition researcher, a professor at Nanjing Agricultural University since 2012 after twenty years at Rothamsted Research, known for discovering how arsenic enters rice.

Fanxin Long

Fanxin Long is an American bone and developmental biologist who studies how signaling pathways control osteoblast differentiation, holding an endowed chair at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia since 2018.

Farahe Maloof

Farahe Maloof is an endocrinologist and thyroid researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, publishing from 1951 on radioactive iodine therapy and thyrotropin-secreting pituitary tumors.

Farooq Azam

Farooq Azam, born 1940 in Lahore, is a marine microbiologist and emeritus professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography who coined the microbial loop concept and won the 2026 Kyoto Prize.

Farren J. Isaacs

Farren J. Isaacs is a synthetic biologist and genome engineer, professor at Yale, known for building genomically recoded bacteria and the MAGE and CAGE engineering tools.

Fasiha Kanwal

Fasiha Kanwal is a physician-scientist and tenured professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, known for VA cohort research on liver cancer risk in hepatitis C.

Fastone Mathew Goma

Fastone Mathew Goma is a Zambian physician-scientist and cardiologist at the University of Zambia known for tobacco control research and cardiovascular epidemiology, including the ITC Zambia surveys.

Fatih M. Uckun

Fatih M. Uckun (Fatih Mehmet Uçkun) is a physician-scientist in hematology, oncology, and immunology whose targeted biotherapy research used the CD19 antigen against B-lineage leukemia.

Fátima Cardoso

Fátima Cardoso is a Portuguese medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer, known for leading the MINDACT trial and creating Portugal's first certified Breast Unit in Lisbon.

Fatima Mechta-Grigoriou

Fatima Mechta-Grigoriou is a French cancer biologist, Research Director at Inserm and director of the Stress and Cancer laboratory at Institut Curie in Paris, elected an EMBO Member in 2016.

Fausto Roila

Fausto Roila is an Italian medical oncologist known for research on preventing chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting and for leading the MASCC and ESMO antiemetic guidelines.

Federica Sallusto

Federica Sallusto is an immunologist known for defining the two main subsets of human memory T cells and for evidence that narcolepsy is autoimmune, leading a lab in Bellinzona, Switzerland.

Federico Bussolino

Federico Bussolino, born in Turin in 1954, is an Italian physician-scientist, professor of biochemistry at the University of Turin, and a leading researcher on tumor angiogenesis.

Fei Chen

Fei Chen is an associate professor at Harvard and Broad Institute core member working in single-cell and spatial genomics. He is best known for co-inventing Expansion microscopy and developing Slide-seq.