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Flora M. Vaccarino

Flora M. Vaccarino is a physician-scientist and stem-cell biologist at Yale University who pioneered three-dimensional brain organoids from induced pluripotent stem cells in 2012, modeling autism and Tourette syndrome.

Flora Peyvandi

Flora Peyvandi is an Italian hematologist at the University of Milan who led the SIPPET and HERCULES trials and served as ISTH President from 2022 to 2024.

Florante A. Quiocho

Florante A. Quiocho, also cited as F.A. Quiocho, is a structural biologist and Distinguished Emeritus Professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, known for crystal structures of bacterial transport receptors.

Florence Pat Haseltine

Florence Pat Haseltine is an American physician-scientist in reproductive endocrinology who founded the Society for Women's Health Research in 1990 and the Journal of Women's Health in 1992.

Florence R. Sabin

Florence R. Sabin was an American anatomist who became the first woman full professor at Johns Hopkins and pioneered research on the lymphatic system and tuberculosis.

Florence Wong

Florence Wong is a hepatologist and professor of medicine at the University of Toronto who researches decompensated cirrhosis and led the 2021 CONFIRM trial of terlipressin.

Florent Ginhoux

Florent Ginhoux is a French immunologist known for showing that many tissue macrophages arise from embryonic precursors, and now leads a laboratory at Gustave Roussy Hospital in Villejuif.

Florian Bassermann

Florian Bassermann is a German physician-scientist in hematology and oncology who studies ubiquitin-dependent signaling in cancer, directing Internal Medicine III at TUM's Klinikum rechts der Isar since 2017.

Florian Eichler

Florian S. Eichler is an Austrian-trained pediatric neurologist and Harvard professor at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, known for leading lentiviral gene-therapy trials in cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy published in 2017 and 2024.

Florian Engert

Florian Engert is a systems neuroscientist and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University who studies neural circuits controlling behavior in larval zebrafish.

Florian Klein

Florian Klein is a German physician-scientist, virologist, and immunologist, professor and director of the Institute of Virology at the University of Cologne since 2017, known for broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2.

Florian Krammer

Florian Krammer is a virologist and vaccinologist, the Mount Sinai Professor of Vaccinology since 2019, known for a universal influenza vaccine candidate tested in humans.

Florian Läng

Florian Läng, also known as Florian Lang, is an Austrian-born German physiologist at the University of Tübingen known for research on ion channels, cell volume regulation, and SGK1.

Florian Lordick

Florian Lordick is a German medical oncologist specializing in gastro-esophageal cancer who directs the University Cancer Center Leipzig, led the 2025 ESOPEC trial, and chairs ESMO's gastric cancer guideline group.

Florian R. Greten

Florian R. Greten, born 1972, is a physician-scientist in oncology known for linking the NF-κB pathway to intestinal tumorigenesis; he has directed Frankfurt's Georg-Speyer-Haus since 2013.

Flossie Wong‐Staal

Flossie Wong-Staal, born Yee Ching Wong (1946–2020), was a Chinese-born American molecular virologist who first cloned HIV, proved it causes AIDS, and later led AIDS research at UCSD.

Floyd E. Bloom

Floyd E. Bloom (1936–2025) was an American neuroscientist and physician who established norepinephrine as a brain neurotransmitter, chaired the neuropharmacology department at the Scripps Research Institute, and edited Science from 1995 to 2000.

Floyd E. Romesberg

Floyd E. Romesberg is an American biochemist and geneticist who spent most of his career at The Scripps Research Institute and created the first semi-synthetic organism, a bacterium with an added human-made DNA base pair.

Floyd W. Denny

Floyd W. Denny, Jr. was an American pediatrician and infectious-disease researcher who chaired pediatrics at UNC Chapel Hill for twenty years and defined the epidemiology of childhood respiratory infections.

Folke Henschen

Folke Henschen (1881–1977) was a Swedish pathologist and anatomist, professor of pathological anatomy at the Karolinska Institutet from 1920 to 1946, who described Morgagni's syndrome and initiated Swedish geriatrics research.

Folke K. Skoog

Folke K. Skoog was a Swedish-born American plant physiologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for discovering kinetin and creating the Murashige and Skoog tissue culture medium.

Folke Sjöqvist

Folke Sjöqvist (1933–2020) was a Swedish clinical pharmacologist who became Sweden's first professor of clinical pharmacology and pioneered pharmacogenetics, showing genetic causes of 30-fold differences in antidepressant drug levels.

Foo Y. Liew

Foo Y. Liew, known as Eddy Liew, is an immunologist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Glasgow who showed that nitric oxide kills engulfed pathogens.

Forest Rohwer

Forest Rohwer is a viral ecologist and professor at San Diego State University who pioneered viromics, sequencing all viruses in a sample, and studies viruses on coral reefs.

Forrest F. Weight

Forrest F. Weight is a neuroscientist in synaptic electrophysiology who worked at St. Elizabeths Hospital and NIAAA, showing ethanol inhibits NMDA receptors at intoxicating concentrations.

Fortunato Ciardiello

Fortunato Ciardiello, born in Naples in 1960, is an Italian medical oncologist and professor at the University of Campania whose work established RAS mutation testing before anti-EGFR therapy in colorectal cancer.

Fotis C. Kafatos

Fotis C. Kafatos (1940–2017) was a Greek developmental and molecular biologist who sequenced the malaria mosquito genome, directed EMBL, and chaired the European Research Council.

Fowzan S. Alkuraya

Fowzan S. Alkuraya is a Saudi human geneticist, Professor of Human Genetics at Alfaisal University, known for defining the autozygome and discovering human knockout genes.

Fran Supek

Fran Supek, born 1981, is a Croatian computational biologist leading the Genome Data Science lab at IRB Barcelona and, since 2024, a group at the University of Copenhagen.

Frances A. Shepherd

Frances A. Shepherd is a Canadian medical oncologist and lung cancer clinical-trials researcher at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, known for the 2005 BR.21 erlotinib and JBR.10 trials.