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Fernando Azorín

Fernando Azorín, also published as Ferran Azorín, is a Spanish molecular biologist and Research Professor at CSIC in Barcelona, known for work on chromatin structure and genome stability.

Fernando C. Fervenza

Fernando C. Fervenza, also published as Fernando Fervenza, is a Brazilian-trained nephrologist and Mayo Clinic professor who led the MENTOR trial of rituximab for membranous nephropathy.

Fernando Cabanillas

Fernando Cabanillas is a Puerto Rican medical oncologist specializing in lymphoma, known for developing the MIME, DHAP, and ESHAP salvage regimens and curative approaches to indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Fernando Camargo

Fernando D. Camargo is a stem cell biologist and professor at Harvard University and Boston Children's Hospital, known for Hippo pathway and blood stem cell research.

Fernando D. Martínez

Fernando D. Martínez is a Chilean-born American pediatric pulmonologist and asthma researcher at the University of Arizona, where he directs the Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center.

Fernando J. Martínez

Fernando J. Martínez is a Cuban-born pulmonary physician-scientist known for research on COPD and interstitial lung disease, and editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Fernando Nottebohm

Fernando Nottebohm, born in Buenos Aires in 1940, is a Rockefeller University neuroscientist who mapped the songbird song system and gave the first solid evidence that adult warm-blooded brains add new neurons.

Fernando P. Polack

Fernando P. Polack is an Argentine pediatric infectious disease researcher at Vanderbilt University known for RSV research and leading the Pfizer–BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine trial in Argentina.

Fernando T. Maestre

Fernando T. Maestre, born in Sax, Spain, in 1976, is a Spanish dryland ecologist and professor at KAUST who built the first global field networks studying dryland degradation.

Feroz R. Papa

Feroz R. Papa is an American physician-scientist and Professor of Medicine at UCSF who studies how protein unfolding in the endoplasmic reticulum causes disease, developing IRE1α-targeting drugs for diabetes and fibrosis.

Ferric C. Fang

Ferric C. Fang is an American physician and microbiologist, professor at the University of Washington since 2001 and director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

Field C. Leonard

Field C. Leonard (Field Case Leonard) was an American vascular surgeon in Springfield, Massachusetts, who published New England Journal of Medicine papers on arterial embolectomy between 1950 and 1954.

Filip Swirski

Filip Swirski is a Polish-born immunologist known for work on monocytes and macrophages in atherosclerosis; since 2021 he has directed the Cardiovascular Research Institute at Mount Sinai in New York.

Filipe Borges

Filipe Borges is a plant molecular biologist who leads an epigenetics team at INRAE's Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin near Paris, studying small RNAs and transposon silencing in plant reproduction.

Filippo Bottazzi

Filippo Bottazzi (1867–1941) was an Italian comparative physiologist and professor at the University of Naples, commonly credited as the father of Italian biochemistry; he discovered the hemocatatonetic function of the spleen.

Filippo Crea

Filippo Crea, born in Cosenza, Italy, in 1953, is an Italian cardiologist known for establishing that ischemic heart disease involves the coronary microcirculation, not only large-artery narrowing.

Filippo Giancotti

Filippo G. Giancotti (1958–2023) was an Italian-born cancer biologist known for work on integrin signaling and metastatic dormancy, holding posts at Sloan Kettering, MD Anderson, and Columbia.

Filippo M. Rijli

Filippo M. Rijli is an Italian developmental biologist who leads the Laboratory of Developmental Neuroepigenetics at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel, studying Hox genes and Polycomb regulation in cranial neural crest.

Filippo Mancia

Filippo Mancia is an Italian structural biologist and professor at Columbia University who determines atomic structures of membrane proteins, including the Wnt carrier WLS and the choline transporter FLVCR2.

Filippo Pietrantonio

Filippo Pietrantonio is an Italian medical oncologist who heads gastrointestinal oncology at the Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori in Milan, known for the CodeBreaK 300 trial in KRAS G12C-mutated colorectal cancer.

Finlay A. McAlister

Finlay A. McAlister is a Canadian general internist and clinical researcher at the University of Alberta, known for outcomes research in heart failure, hypertension, and coronary artery disease.

Fiona Doetsch

Fiona Doetsch is a Canadian-born developmental neuroscientist and professor at the University of Basel, known for identifying astrocytes in the adult brain as neural stem cells.

Fiona H. Marshall

Fiona H. Marshall is a molecular pharmacologist known for her work on G protein-coupled receptors, who co-founded Heptares Therapeutics and has led biomedical research at Novartis since 2022.

Fiona M. Gribble

Fiona M. Gribble is Professor of Endocrine Physiology at the University of Cambridge, where she studies gut hormones including GLP-1 and GIP, the hormones behind semaglutide and tirzepatide.

Fiona Powrie

Dame Fiona Powrie, born 1963, is a British immunologist who directs the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology at Oxford and studies regulatory T cells and IL-23 in inflammatory bowel disease.

Fiona Watt

Fiona Watt, also known as Fiona M. Watt, is a British stem cell biologist known for isolating human epidermal stem cells and director of EMBO since 2022.

Firdausi Qadri

Firdausi Qadri, born 1951, is a Bangladeshi immunologist at icddr,b in Dhaka whose trials showed a single oral dose of cholera vaccine protects older children and adults.

Flaminia Catteruccia

Flaminia Catteruccia is a malaria researcher and Irene Heinz Given Professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health who studies how Plasmodium parasites develop inside Anopheles mosquitoes.

Flavio Vincenti

Flavio Vincenti is a transplant nephrologist at the University of California, San Francisco, on the faculty since 1976, known for clinical trials of belatacept and a past president of the American Society of Transplantation.

Flora E. van Leeuwen

Flora E. van Leeuwen, known in the Netherlands as Floor van Leeuwen, is a Dutch cancer epidemiologist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam who has researched cancer risk factors there since 1981.