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Frederick L. Altice

Frederick L. Altice is a Yale professor of medicine and epidemiology who has directed its HIV in Prisons Program since 1991, researching HIV, hepatitis, and tuberculosis in prisoners and people who inject drugs.

Frederick L. Brancati

Frederick L. Brancati was an American physician and epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins who specialized in preventing type 2 diabetes and directed its Division of General Internal Medicine until his 2013 death.

Frederick L. Ferris

Frederick L. Ferris is an American ophthalmologist who spent 35 years at the National Eye Institute leading landmark trials of diabetic retinopathy and macular degeneration treatment.

Frederick L. Locke

Frederick L. Locke is an American medical oncologist who treats lymphoma and multiple myeloma at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida, and led the ZUMA-1 and ZUMA-7 CAR T-cell trials.

Frederick M. Ausubel

Frederick M. Ausubel is an American molecular geneticist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital known for studies of host-microbe interactions and innate immunity.

Frederick M. Burkle Jr.

Frederick M. "Skip" Burkle Jr. is an American physician and founding figure in disaster medicine who served over 17 years at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.

Frederick M. Hughson

Frederick M. Hughson is a Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University who determines the structures of protein complexes that cells use to move cargo between compartments.

Frederick Orpen Bower

Frederick Orpen Bower (1855–1948) was a British botanist and Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Glasgow, known for his study of primitive land plants.

Frederick P. Rivara

Frederick P. Rivara, born 1949, is an American pediatrician and injury-prevention researcher at the University of Washington who showed bicycle helmets reduce head injury by 85 percent.

Frederick P. Roth

Frederick P. Roth is an American computational biologist, chair of Computational and Systems Biology at the University of Pittsburgh, known for network biology and causal gene selection.

Frederick P. Siegal

Frederick P. Siegal (F. P. Siegal) is an American clinical immunologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, known for describing some of the first AIDS cases in 1981.

Frederick Parker Gay

Frederick Parker Gay (1874–1939) was an American bacteriologist and immunologist who held Columbia's bacteriology chair from 1923 and defined immunology as a distinct scientific discipline in 1911.

Frederick Parkes Weber

Frederick Parkes Weber (1863–1962) was an English physician and dermatologist who spent fifty years at the German Hospital in Dalston, London, and lent his name to Sturge-Weber disease and Parkes Weber syndrome.

Frederick R. Appelbaum

Frederick R. Appelbaum is an American medical oncologist and executive vice president of Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle, known for pioneering stem cell transplantation for leukemia since 1978.

Frederick R. Blattner

Frederick R. Blattner is a geneticist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who led the sequencing of the first complete Escherichia coli genome, published in 1997.

Frederick R. Cross

Frederick R. Cross is a cell biologist at The Rockefeller University in New York who studies how cyclins and CDKs drive the cell cycle in budding yeast.

Frederick R. Maxfield

Frederick R. Maxfield is a biochemist and the Vladimir and Wanda Toscanini Horowitz Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine since 1995, known for work on endocytosis and intracellular cholesterol transport.

Frederick Raal

Frederick J. Raal is a South African endocrinologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, known for first-author trials of evolocumab, inclisiran, and evinacumab in familial hypercholesterolaemia.

Frederick Redlich

Frederick Redlich, known as Fritz, was an Austrian-born American psychiatrist who chaired Yale's psychiatry department and served as dean of its medical school from 1967 to 1972.

Frederick S. Jaffe

Frederick S. Jaffe (1925–1978) was an American family planning researcher who served as vice president of Planned Parenthood and first president of the Guttmacher Institute.

Frederick S. Kaplan

Frederick S. Kaplan is an American physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, codiscovered its causative gene in 2006, and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2009.

Frederick Sanger

Frederick Sanger (1918–2013) was a British biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice, in 1958 for determining insulin's structure and in 1980 for DNA sequencing.

Frederick Stohlman

Frederick Stohlman was an American hematologist, professor of medicine at Tufts University, whose laboratory did much of the mid-century work establishing erythropoietin's role in red-cell production.

Frederick Twort

Frederick William Twort was a British bacteriologist who in 1915 first described the bacteria-killing agent later known as bacteriophage, and identified the growth factor behind vitamin K.

Frederick W. Alt

Frederick W. Alt is an American immunologist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator since 1987, and Harvard professor known for work on V(D)J recombination and genome stability.

Frederick W. Dahlquist

Frederick W. Dahlquist is a biochemist and biophysicist, Distinguished Professor at UC Santa Barbara since 2004, known for using NMR to study protein structure and bacterial chemotaxis signaling.

Frederik Barkhof

Frederik Barkhof is a Dutch neuroradiologist known for the Barkhof criteria, MRI findings used to diagnose multiple sclerosis, and professor at Amsterdam UMC and University College London.

Frederik C. Krebs

Frederik C. Krebs (born 1970) is a Danish chemist known for roll-to-roll manufacture of flexible polymer solar cells, who founded the printed-electronics company infinityPV.

Frederik L. Hisaw

Frederik L. Hisaw, also known as Frederick Lee Hisaw, was an American endocrinologist and professor of zoology at Harvard University, best known for discovering the hormone relaxin, which widens the pelvis during pregnancy.

Fredric E. Wondisford

Fredric E. Wondisford is an American physician-scientist in endocrinology and diabetes who has served as dean of the University of Arizona College of Medicine–Phoenix since 2023.