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Frank A. Oski

Frank A. Oski was an American pediatrician and hematologist who directed the Johns Hopkins Children's Center from 1985 to 1995 and researched infant anemia and iron deficiency.

Frank A. Sinicrope

Frank A. Sinicrope is a gastrointestinal medical oncologist and Professor of Medicine and Oncology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for work on Lynch syndrome colorectal cancer and immunotherapy biomarkers.

Frank A. von Hippel

Frank A. von Hippel is an American professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Arizona, where he leads the One Health research initiative.

Frank B. Cortazar

Frank B. Cortazar is an American nephrologist specializing in vasculitis and glomerular disease who founded the New York Nephrology Vasculitis and Glomerular Center in 2019.

Frank B. Gertler

Frank B. Gertler is a cell biologist and Professor of Biology Emeritus at MIT, known for defining the Ena/VASP proteins that regulate actin filament elongation and cell migration.

Frank Bradke

Frank Bradke, born 1969 in Berlin, is a German neuroscientist at the DZNE in Bonn who studies axon growth and won the 2016 Leibniz Prize.

Frank Brink Jr.

Frank Brink Jr., an American biophysicist, studied nerve fiber metabolism and worked at The Rockefeller University. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1959.

Frank C. P. Holstege

Frank C. P. Holstege (born 1966) is a Dutch molecular biologist, professor of Genomics at UMC Utrecht, known for genome-wide transcription studies and pediatric cancer genomics.

Frank C. Sciurba

Frank C. Sciurba, also known as Frank Sciurba, is an American pulmonologist and COPD researcher who directs the Emphysema COPD Research Center at the University of Pittsburgh.

Frank Charles Mann

Frank Charles Mann (1887–1962) was an American experimental physiologist and physician at the Mayo Clinic, known for hepatectomy studies of the liver, the Mann-Williamson ulcer model, and early heart transplantation.

Frank Costantini

Frank Costantini is an American developmental biologist and geneticist, Professor Emeritus at Columbia, known for transgenic mouse technology and showing Ret is required for kidney development.

Frank D. Gilliland

Frank D. Gilliland, also published as Frank Gilliland, is a physician-epidemiologist and Hastings Professor at USC known for the Children's Health Study of air pollution and lung development.

Frank DiMaio

Frank Paul DiMaio is a computational structural biologist and associate professor of biochemistry at the University of Washington's Institute for Protein Design, known for Rosetta cryo-EM refinement and RoseTTAFoldNA.

Frank E. Löffler

Frank E. Löffler is an environmental microbiologist holding the Goodrich Chair at the University of Tennessee, known for anaerobic bacteria that detoxify chlorinated solvents in contaminated groundwater.

Frank E. Speizer

Frank E. Speizer (born 1935) is an American epidemiologist at Harvard who founded the Nurses' Health Study and led the Harvard Six Cities air pollution study.

Frank E. Young

Frank E. Young (1931–2019) was an American physician-scientist and bacteriologist who served as FDA Commissioner from 1984 to 1989 and later worked in healthcare venture capital.

Frank Fenner

Frank Fenner (1914–2010) was an Australian virologist whose myxomatosis research showed viruses and hosts evolving together, and who chaired the WHO commission certifying smallpox eradicated in 1980.

Frank G. Holz

Frank G. Holz is a German ophthalmologist and professor at the University of Bonn, known for research on age-related macular degeneration and retinal imaging, including fundus autofluorescence.

Frank Grosveld

Frank Grosveld (1948–2026) was a Dutch molecular biologist who discovered the β-globin locus control region, taught at Erasmus MC Rotterdam, and won the 1995 Spinoza Prize.

Frank H. Ruddle

Frank H. Ruddle, known as Frank Ruddle, was an American molecular biologist and Sterling Professor at Yale who pioneered human gene mapping and created the first transgenic mice.

Frank Horsfall

Frank Lappin Horsfall, Jr. (1906–1971) was an American virologist who achieved the first successful antiviral therapy in animals, an influenza vaccine halving incidence, and the Tamm–Horsfall protein.

Frank Hu

Frank B. Hu is a nutritional epidemiologist who chairs the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and studies diet, lifestyle, and type 2 diabetes prevention.

Frank J. Dixon

Frank J. Dixon (1920–2008) was an American immunologist who founded immunopathology and directed the Scripps research program in La Jolla, winning the 1975 Lasker Award.

Frank J. Gonzalez

Frank J. Gonzalez is an American molecular toxicologist and senior investigator at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, known for P450 knockout and humanized mouse models of cancer susceptibility.

Frank J. Rauscher

Frank J. Rauscher is an American molecular biologist at The Wistar Institute known for defining the Fos–AP-1 DNA binding site and showing WT1 is a transcriptional repressor.

Frank J. Stevenson

Frank J. Stevenson (1922–2015) was an American soil chemist at the University of Illinois, a pioneer of soil organic matter research and a Wolf Prize in Agriculture laureate.

Frank Kirchhoff

Frank Kirchhoff is a German virologist who has directed the Institute of Molecular Virology at the University Clinic Ulm since 2009, known for work on HIV, Nef, and semen factors that enhance infection.

Frank Lyko

Frank Lyko is a German molecular biologist who heads the Division of Epigenetics at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, studying DNA methylation in cancer.

Frank M. Bengel

Frank M. Bengel (Frank Bengel), born 1969, is a German nuclear medicine physician and professor at Hannover Medical School since 2011, known for pioneering cardiac PET and molecular heart imaging.

Frank M. Chapman

Frank M. Chapman was an American ornithologist who spent 54 years at the American Museum of Natural History and studied the distribution of North and South American birds.