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Fred Gould

Fred Gould is an American entomologist and evolutionary biologist at North Carolina State University, known for work on insect-resistant crops, gene drives, and genetically engineered mosquitoes.

Fred H. Gage

Fred H. Gage, known as Rusty Gage, is an American neuroscientist at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, known for demonstrating adult neurogenesis in the human brain.

Fred Heffron

Frederick Lee Heffron Jr. was an American microbiologist known for research on Salmonella pathogenesis and on transposable elements, ending his career at Oregon Health & Science University.

Fred J Sigworth

Fred J Sigworth, born Frederick J. Sigworth in 1951, is an American biophysicist who co-developed the patch-clamp technique and spent his faculty career at Yale School of Medicine.

Fred Morady

Fred Morady is an American cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist who directed the electrophysiology laboratory at the University of Michigan from 1984 to 2004 and helped shape modern arrhythmia treatment.

Fred Neufeld

Fred Neufeld (1869–1945) was a German bacteriologist who directed the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin from 1917 to 1933 and established pneumococcal serotyping, the Quellung reaction, and the bile solubility test.

Fred Plum

Fred Plum (1924–2010) was an American neurologist who helped coin "persistent vegetative state" and "locked-in syndrome", and wrote The Diagnosis of Stupor and Coma with Jerome Posner.

Fred Poordad

Fred Poordad is an American hepatologist at UT Health San Antonio and the Texas Liver Institute who led pivotal hepatitis C trials, including the 2011 SPRINT-2 boceprevir study.

Fred R. Hirsch

Fred R. Hirsch is a medical oncologist and lung cancer researcher who leads the Center for Thoracic Oncology at Mount Sinai and studies EGFR and PD-L1 biomarkers.

Fred Ramsdell

Frederick J. Ramsdell is an American immunologist who co-won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on peripheral immune tolerance and co-discovered Foxp3.

Fred Rapp

Fred Rapp (1929–2001) was an American virologist who chaired microbiology at Penn State's Hershey Medical Center from 1969 to 1990 and showed that herpes simplex virus type 2 can transform cells malignant.

Fred Rieke

Fred Rieke is a neuroscientist and professor at the University of Washington who studies how the retina processes visual signals at the limits set by noise.

Fred Rosner

Fred Rosner (1935 to 2024) was an American physician, board certified in hematology, who became an internationally known authority on Jewish medical ethics, and a professor of medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Fred Russell Kramer

Fred Russell Kramer is a molecular biologist and professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School who invented molecular beacons and SuperSelective PCR primers for detecting rare cancer mutations.

Fred S. Rosen

Fred S. Rosen (1930–2005) was an American pediatric immunologist at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital who defined the modern understanding of primary immunodeficiencies.

Fred Saad

Fred Saad is a Canadian uro-oncologist, professor of surgery at the Université de Montréal and chief of urology at CHUM, who led major prostate cancer trials including PROfound and ARANOTE.

Fred Sherman (yeast geneticist)

Fred Sherman (1932–2013) was an American yeast molecular geneticist at the University of Rochester, considered a founder of yeast genetics and the first yeast molecular biologist.

Fred Vlès

Fred Vlès (1885–1944) was a French zoologist turned biophysicist who founded France's first biophysics institute at the University of Strasbourg and pioneered the physical chemistry of the cell.

Fred W. Turek

Fred W. Turek is an American circadian and sleep biologist at Northwestern University, known for helping identify Clock, the first mammalian circadian clock gene, and for showing benzodiazepines can shift the clock.

Fred Winston

Fred Winston (born 1952) is an American yeast geneticist, the John Emory Andrus Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, known for studies of transcription and chromatin structure in yeast.

Freda D. Miller

Freda D. Miller is a Canadian developmental neurobiologist at the University of British Columbia known for isolating multipotent stem cells from adult mammalian skin in 2001.

Freda K. Stevenson

Freda K. Stevenson, born in 1939, is a British immunologist and Emerita Professor at Southampton known for DNA fusion-gene vaccines against lymphoma and CLL immunogenetics.

Freddie Bray

Freddie Bray is a cancer epidemiologist who heads the Cancer Surveillance Branch at IARC in Lyon, France, and leads GLOBOCAN, the worldwide estimates of cancer incidence and mortality.

Freddie C. Hamdy

Freddie C. Hamdy is a British urological surgeon and prostate cancer researcher, chief investigator of the ProtecT trial, the largest trial of localized prostate cancer treatment.

Freddy Radtke

Freddy Radtke is a Swiss molecular biologist and professor at EPFL in Lausanne, known for work on the Notch signaling pathway in stem cells, the skin, the gut, and cancer.

Frédéric Amant

Frédéric Amant (born 1967) is a Belgian gynecologic oncologist who heads Gynecological Oncology at KU Leuven and founded INCIP, showing chemotherapy during pregnancy can be safe.

Frédéric B. Piel

Frédéric B. Piel is a spatial epidemiologist and Associate Professor at Imperial College London who maps the global health burden of sickle cell disease and other haemoglobinopathies.

Frédéric Berger

Frédéric Berger, also written Frederic Berger, is a French plant scientist at the Gregor Mendel Institute in Vienna, known for work on the histone variant H2A.W and epigenetic inheritance through pollen.

Frédéric Bremer

Frédéric Bremer (1892–1982) was a Belgian physiologist at the Université Libre de Bruxelles whose 1935 cerveau isolé and encéphale isolé cat preparations opened the experimental study of sleep.

Frederic C. Bartter

Frederic C. Bartter (1914–1983) was a Filipino-born American endocrinologist who described the salt-losing disorder Bartter syndrome and long led the hypertension endocrine branch at the NIH.