Life and health scientists

Frank M. LaFerla

Frank M. LaFerla is an American neurobiologist who is dean of biological sciences at UC Irvine and created the 3xTg-AD mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.

Frank M. Raushel (born 1949) is an American biochemist and Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University since 1980, known for enzyme catalysis, orphan enzyme discovery, and detoxifying nerve agents.

Frank M. Sacks

Frank M. Sacks is a Harvard professor of cardiovascular disease prevention who designed the DASH diet trial and led the OmniHeart, PoundsLost, and MIND trials.

Frank Madeo

Frank Madeo, born 1967 in Schwerte, Germany, is a molecular biologist and professor at the University of Graz known for discovering yeast cell death and spermidine's lifespan-extending effects.

Frank Maley

Frank Maley is an American biochemist at the New York State Department of Health in Albany, known for discovering the first intron in a bacteriophage gene.

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Frank McCormick

Frank McCormick, also known as Francis Patrick McCormick, is an American cancer biologist at UCSF who studies RAS proteins and founded Onyx Pharmaceuticals, which developed sorafenib.

Frank McKeon

Frank McKeon is an American stem cell biologist known for cloning the p63 gene and tracing Barrett's esophagus to residual embryonic cells at the gastroesophageal junction.

Frank Morgan Strong

Frank Morgan Strong (1908–1993) was an American biochemist and University of Wisconsin professor who, with Conrad Elvehjem, identified niacin as the food component curing pellagra.

Frank Noé

Frank Noé, born 1975 in Germany, is a computational scientist at Microsoft Research AI4Science in Berlin who co-pioneered Markov state models and developed deep learning systems for molecular simulation.

Frank Norman Wilson

Frank Norman Wilson (1890–1952) was an American cardiologist at the University of Michigan who created the Wilson central terminal and the precordial lead system underlying the modern 12-lead electrocardiogram.

Frank O. Nestlé

Frank O. Nestlé, born 1964, is a dermatologist and immunologist known for his work on psoriasis and melanoma, formerly Mary Dunhill Professor at King's College London.

Frank Oliver Glöckner

Frank Oliver Glöckner, born 1969, is a German bioinformatician known for building the SILVA ribosomal RNA database and leading PANGAEA data services at the Alfred Wegener Institute.

Sep 17, 2026

Frank Olson

Frank Olson, Army biochemist and Fort Detrick biological warfare researcher (Special Operations Division), covertly dosed with LSD by the CIA in November 1953; died falling from a Statler Hotel window nine days later, a death disputed after the 1994 exhumation.

Frank Plummer

Frank Plummer, born Francis Allan Plummer, was a Canadian microbiologist whose study of HIV-resistant Nairobi sex workers shaped vaccine research; he led Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory.

Frank R. DeLeo

Frank R. DeLeo is an American microbiologist who serves as Chief of the Laboratory of Bacteriology at NIAID's Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, studying how Staphylococcus aureus evades neutrophils.

Frank Rattray Lillie

Frank Rattray Lillie (1870–1947) was an American zoologist and embryologist whose 1917 freemartin studies explained sex differentiation in cattle twins, and who directed the Marine Biological Laboratory.

Frank Ruschitzka

Frank Ruschitzka is a cardiologist who directs the Clinic for Cardiology at University Hospital Zurich and is a professor of cardiology at the University of Zurich, specializing in heart failure and heart transplantation.

Frank S. Walsh

Frank S. Walsh is a molecular biologist known for his work on the neural cell adhesion molecule N-CAM and for leading neuroscience drug discovery at Wyeth.

Frank Sauer

Frank Sauer is an American-based German biochemist known for research on epigenetics and transcriptional regulation in the fruit fly Drosophila.

Frank Schluenzen

Frank Schluenzen is a structural biologist who co-determined high-resolution structures of bacterial ribosomal subunits, showing antibiotics bind only RNA, and later worked in scientific computing at DESY.

Frank Shann

Frank Shann is an Australian pediatric intensivist and vaccine researcher at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, known for childhood pneumonia research in Papua New Guinea and vaccine non-specific effects.

Frank Slack

Frank J. Slack is a molecular biologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School who co-discovered let-7, the second microRNA identified and the first in humans.

Frank Soldner

Frank Soldner is a German-trained physician-scientist and Associate Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine known for modeling Parkinson's disease with patient-derived stem cells and genome editing.

Frank Solomon

Frank Solomon is a cell biologist and professor emeritus of biology at MIT, known for work on microtubule-associated proteins, the mitotic spindle, and differentiating neurons, winning a 2011 teaching prize.

Frank Stegmeier

Frank Stegmeier is an American cancer biologist and functional genomics expert known for the ClonTracer cellular barcoding method and oncology drug target discovery at Novartis and KSQ Therapeutics.

Frank Tacke

Frank Tacke is a German hepatologist who became head of hepatology and gastroenterology at Charité Berlin in 2019, known for research on liver macrophages and for coordinating EASL clinical guidelines.

Frank Uhlmann

Frank Uhlmann is a cell biologist who studies how sister chromatids are held together and separated during cell division, leading a laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in London since 2000.

Frank W. Crowe

Frank W. Crowe (1919–1987) was an American dermatologist in Boise, Idaho, first author of the 1956 monograph establishing autosomal dominant inheritance of neurofibromatosis and the café-au-lait diagnostic counts.

Frank W. Fitch

Frank W. Fitch (1929–2021) was an American immunologist at the University of Chicago who pioneered T cell cloning and subsets, and made the first anti-mouse CD4 monoclonal antibody.