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Feiko O. ter Kuile

Feiko O. ter Kuile (born 1962) is a Dutch malaria epidemiologist and clinical tropical-medicine researcher, Professor of Tropical Epidemiology at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine since 2003.

Felicia D. Goodrum

Felicia D. Goodrum is an American virologist known for defining the viral genes controlling human cytomegalovirus latency, including UL138, and received the 2008 Presidential Early Career Award.

Felícia Marie Knaul

Felicia Marie Knaul is a Canadian-Mexican health economist and UCLA distinguished professor who helped design Mexico's Seguro Popular and led the 2017 Lancet Commission on palliative care.

Felipe Fregni

Felipe Fregni is a Brazilian-born physician-scientist at Harvard Medical School who studies non-invasive brain stimulation and clinical trial methodology, leads the Spaulding Neuromodulation Center in Boston, and received the PECASE award.

Félix d'Hérelle

Félix d'Hérelle (1873–1949) was a French-Canadian microbiologist who discovered the bacteriophage, a virus that kills bacteria, reported it in 1917, and first used it to treat dysentery patients in 1919.

Félix Dévé

Félix Augustin Dévé (1872–1951) was a French physician and hospital doctor in Rouen, regarded as the great specialist of echinococcosis, a parasitic disease causing hydatid cysts.

Felix Ehrlich

Felix Ehrlich (1877–1942) was a German biochemist at the Institut für Zuckerindustrie in Berlin who identified the Ehrlich pathway of fusel alcohol formation in yeast.

Felix Eugen Fritsch

Felix Eugen Fritsch (1879–1954) was a British botanist, the leading British authority on freshwater algae and author of The Structure and Reproduction of the Algae.

Felix G. Fleischner

Felix G. Fleischner (1893–1969) was an Austrian-American radiologist known for the Fleischner lines and sign, who fled Nazi Austria in 1938 and led radiology at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston.

Felix Haurowitz

Felix Haurowitz was a Czech-born biochemist and immunochemist, born in Prague in 1896, known for the template theory of antibody formation and pioneering work on hemoglobin.

Felix Jacob Marchand

Felix Jacob Marchand (1846–1928) was a German pathologist and professor of pathological anatomy in Leipzig, remembered for coining "atherosclerosis" in 1904 and showing that choriocarcinoma arises from fetal tissue.

Felix Milgrom

Felix Milgrom (1919–2007) was a Polish-born immunologist who chaired Microbiology and Immunology at the University at Buffalo from 1967 to 1985, known for anti-antibodies, rheumatoid factor, and transplant rejection research.

Félix Ratjen

Felix Ratjen is a German-trained Canadian pediatric respirologist at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, known for clinical trials of CFTR modulator drugs in children with cystic fibrosis.

Felix Wieland

Felix T. Wieland, born 1948, is a German biochemist and founding director of Heidelberg University's Biochemistry Center, known for work on COPI-coated vesicles and bulk-flow transport.

Felix Y. Feng

Felix Y. Feng (1975–2024) was an American radiation oncologist and prostate cancer researcher who was a professor at UCSF and developed the first clinical-grade biomarker panels predicting hormone- and radiation-therapy response.

Felix Zijlstra

Felix Zijlstra is a Dutch interventional cardiologist, head of cardiology at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, known for the Zwolle trials and for chairing the TAPAS thrombus-aspiration trial.

Felton Earls

Felton Earls (1942–2026) was an American child psychiatrist and epidemiologist at Harvard who showed that collective efficacy, neighbors' shared trust and willingness to act, predicts lower neighborhood violence.

Fen‐Biao Gao

Fen-Biao Gao is a neuroscientist who is Professor of RNA Therapeutics and founding director of the Frontotemporal Dementia Research Center at UMass Chan Medical School, studying frontotemporal dementia and ALS.

Feng Depei

Feng Depei (Te-Pei Feng) was a Chinese neurophysiologist, 1907 to 1995, known for the Feng effect and for first describing post-tetanic potentiation at the neuromuscular junction in 1941.

Feng Zhang

Feng Zhang (张锋, born 1981) is a Chinese-born American scientist at the Broad Institute and MIT who first adapted CRISPR-Cas9 to edit mammalian, including human, cells.

Fengbin Wang

Fengbin Wang is a Chinese-born structural biologist who uses cryo-electron microscopy to study protein filaments and is an assistant professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham since 2022.

Fenton Schaffner

Fenton Schaffner (1920–2000) was an American physician and hepatologist who founded the Division of Liver Diseases at Mount Sinai Hospital and helped establish hepatology as a discipline.

Feodor Lynen

Feodor Lynen (1911–1979) was a German biochemist who shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research on cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism.

Ferdinand Adalbert Kehrer

Ferdinand Adalbert Kehrer (1883–1966) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist who held the chair of neurology and psychiatry at the University of Münster from 1925 to 1953.

Ferdinand Engelhart

Ferdinand Engelhart was a pharmacologist in Otto Loewi's institute at Graz who in 1930 and 1931 proved acetylcholine release in the eye during pupillary contraction.

Ferdinand Hueppe

Ferdinand Hueppe (1852–1938) was a German bacteriologist and hygienist, professor at the German University in Prague, and the first president of the German Football Association, 1900 to 1904.

Ferdinand-Jean Darier

Ferdinand-Jean Darier (1856–1938) was a French dermatologist and pathologist who served at the Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris from 1909 to 1922 and first described Darier's disease in 1889, along with several other skin conditions.

Fergus J. Couch

Fergus J. Couch is an American cancer geneticist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for the CARRIERS breast cancer study and classifying BRCA2 gene variants.

Fergus Shanahan

Fergus Shanahan is an Irish gastroenterologist and mucosal immunologist, Professor Emeritus at University College Cork and founding director of APC Microbiome Ireland, a microbiome research center.

Ferid Murad

Ferid Murad (1936–2023) was an Albanian-American physician and pharmacologist who discovered that nitric oxide signals in the cardiovascular system, winning the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.