Life and health scientists

Francis Brambell

Francis William Rogers Brambell (1901–1970) was an Irish-born medical scientist and zoologist, professor at Bangor, who discovered how mothers transfer passive immunity to their young.

Francis C. Wood

Francis C. Wood, also known as Francis Carter Wood, was an American pathologist and cancer researcher who directed Columbia's Crocker cancer research fund from 1912 to 1940.

Francis Carbone

Francis Carbone is an Australian immunologist, a professor at the University of Melbourne and the Peter Doherty Institute known for research on T cell selection and cross-presentation.

Francis Sellers Collins (born 1950) is an American physician-geneticist, cystic fibrosis gene discoverer via positional cloning, leader of the Human Genome Project, NHGRI director 1993-2008, and NIH director 2009-2021; retired from NIH in March 2025.

Francis Crick

Francis Harry Compton Crick (1916–2004) was a British molecular biologist who co-proposed DNA's double-helix structure in 1953, winning the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Francis D. Moore

Francis D. Moore (1913–2001) was an American surgeon who led surgery at Harvard's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and founded the scientific study of surgical metabolic care.

Francis Darwin

Sir Francis Darwin (1848–1925), third son of Charles Darwin, English botanist; collaborated on The Power of Movement in Plants (1880), Cambridge botany lecturer and reader, Royal Society foreign secretary, knighted 1913, editor of Life and Letters of Charles Darwin.

Francis E. Marchlinski

Francis E. Marchlinski is an American cardiac electrophysiologist who directs electrophysiology at the University of Pennsylvania and is known for developing substrate-based catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia.

Francis Gano Benedict

Francis Gano Benedict (1870–1957) was an American chemist and physiologist who directed the Carnegie Nutrition Laboratory in Boston from 1907 to 1937 and developed the Harris–Benedict equations for basal metabolism.

Francis Gilman Blake

Francis Gilman Blake (1887–1952) was an American physician and immunologist, Sterling Professor of Medicine at Yale, known for demonstrating the viral cause of measles and directing early tests of penicillin.

Francis H. Glorieux

Francis H. Glorieux, also known as F.H. Glorieux (1939–2025), was a Belgian-born Canadian pediatrician and geneticist at McGill and the Montreal Shriners Hospital whose rickets and osteogenesis imperfecta treatments became worldwide standards of care.

Francis J. Doyle III

Francis J. Doyle III is an American control engineer known for the artificial pancreas and for serving as dean of Harvard SEAS and provost of Brown University.

Francis J. Klocke

Francis J. Klocke is an American cardiologist and professor emeritus at Northwestern University, founding director of its cardiovascular research institute and a past president of the American College of Cardiology.

Francis John Worsley Roughton

Francis John Worsley Roughton (1899–1972) was a British physiologist and biochemist at Trinity College, Cambridge, who with Hamilton Hartridge invented the rapid-flow method for measuring very fast chemical reactions in 1923.

Francis M. Giardiello

Francis M. Giardiello, also known as Francis Giardiello, is a gastroenterologist and physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine known for his research on hereditary gastrointestinal cancer, especially familial adenomatous polyposis.

Francis M. Rackemann

Francis Minot Rackemann (1887–1973) was an American physician and allergist who led the allergy clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital and classified asthma into extrinsic and intrinsic forms, a distinction still used in research.

Francis Marshall (physiologist)

Francis Hugh Adam Marshall (1878–1949) was a British physiologist who demonstrated that ovarian secretions control the oestrous cycle and wrote the 1910 textbook The Physiology of Reproduction.

Francis Martin (fungal genomicist)

Francis Martin is a French fungal genomicist and Research Director Emeritus at INRAE in Nancy, known for sequencing the Laccaria bicolor and Périgord black truffle genomes.

Francis O. Schmitt

Francis O. Schmitt (1903–1995) was an American biologist and neuroscientist, Institute Professor at MIT, who launched neuroscience as a field with his Neurosciences Research Program in 1962.

Francis R. Willett

Francis R. Willett (Frank Willett) is a neuroscientist and Stanford assistant professor of neurosurgery known for brain-computer interfaces that decoded handwriting at 90 characters per minute.

Francis S. Lee

Francis S. Lee is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Weill Cornell Medicine who studies the molecular basis of mood and anxiety disorders, and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2016.

Francis V. Chisari

Francis V. Chisari, known as Frank Chisari, is an American virologist and immunologist at The Scripps Research Institute who defined how the immune system clears hepatitis B and C.

Francis Xavier Dercum

Francis Xavier Dercum (1856–1931) was an American neurologist in Philadelphia who identified adiposis dolorosa, the painful fat disorder still called Dercum's disease, and treated President Woodrow Wilson.

Francisca Mutapi

Francisca Mutapi is a Zimbabwean medical researcher and professor at the University of Edinburgh whose work on schistosomiasis opened treatment to 50 million African preschool children.

Francisco Baralle

Francisco E. Baralle, born 1943 in Buenos Aires, is an Argentine molecular biologist in Trieste who sequenced the first complete eukaryotic mRNA in 1977 and pioneered alternative splicing research.

Francisco Bezanilla

Francisco Bezanilla is a Chilean-trained biophysicist, professor emeritus at the University of Chicago, known for codiscovering the gating current in sodium channels and for work on voltage sensors.

Francisco Gonzalez-Scarano M.D.

Francisco González-Scarano is an American physician-scientist in neurovirology who chaired neurology at Penn and was dean of the Long School of Medicine at UT Health San Antonio.

Francisco J Asturias

Francisco J. Asturias is a structural biologist and Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical School, known for cryo-EM structures of the Mediator transcription complex, the RSC chromatin remodeler, and the HIV-1 capsid.

Francisco J. Ayala

Francisco José Ayala (1934–2023) was a Spanish-born American evolutionary geneticist at UC Davis and Irvine known for work on the origin of species, genetic diversity, and the molecular clock of evolution.