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Fredric L. Coe

Fredric L. Coe is an American nephrologist at the University of Chicago known for kidney stone research, founding its Kidney Stone Evaluation and Treatment Program in 1969.

Fredrick C. Redlich

Fredrick C. Redlich, known as Fritz Redlich, was an Austrian-born American psychiatrist who led Yale's psychiatry department for 17 years and coauthored the classic study Social Class and Mental Illness.

Fredrick J. Stare

Fredrick J. Stare (1910–2002) was an American nutritionist and physician who founded and chaired Harvard's Department of Nutrition from 1942 to 1976, becoming a controversial figure in food-industry funding debates.

Fredrick Van Goor

Fredrick Van Goor is a Canadian-born cell biologist who, as head of cystic fibrosis research at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, led the biology behind five licensed CF medicines including Trikafta.

Fredrik Bäckhed

Fredrik Bäckhed is a Swedish microbiome researcher and professor of molecular medicine at the University of Gothenburg, known for showing how gut bacteria affect fat storage and insulin signaling.

Fredrik Höök

Fredrik Höök is a biophysicist and professor of nano and biophysics at Chalmers University of Technology, known for developing QCM-D, nanoplasmonic sensing, and two-dimensional flow nanometry of biological nanoparticles.

Fredrik Leeb-Lundberg

L. M. Fredrik Leeb-Lundberg is a pharmacologist and professor emeritus of Experimental Medical Science at Lund University, known for his work on G protein-coupled receptors in cancer.

Fredros O Okumu

Fredros O Okumu, born in Kenya in 1981, is a Kenyan malaria researcher and professor at the University of Glasgow known for tools against outdoor-biting mosquitoes.

Freek W.A. Verheugt

Freek W.A. Verheugt is a Dutch cardiologist, emeritus professor of cardiology at Radboud University Medical Centre in Nijmegen, known for the ICTUS trial and anticoagulation research.

Friedhelm Hildebrandt

Friedhelm Hildebrandt, M.D., is a pediatric nephrologist and geneticist who is chief of nephrology at Boston Children's Hospital and a Harvard professor, known for identifying single-gene causes of inherited childhood kidney disease.

Friedrich Berthold Reinke

Friedrich Berthold Reinke was a German anatomist (1862–1919) who spent his career at the University of Rostock and gave his name to the Reinke space of the vocal fold and Reinke crystals.

Friedrich Bonhoeffer

Friedrich Bonhoeffer (1932–2021) was a German developmental neuroscientist, trained as a nuclear physicist, who showed how retinal axons find their targets and led a Max Planck institute in Tübingen.

Friedrich C. Luft

Friedrich C. Luft, born in Berlin in 1942, is a physician-scientist and professor at the Max Delbrück Center and Charité in Berlin, known for research on hypertension and nephrology.

Friedrich Fehleisen

Friedrich Fehleisen (1854–1924) was a German physician and surgeon who, working at Würzburg, isolated the erysipelas streptococcus in pure culture and proved experimentally that it causes the disease.

Friedrich Feyrter

Friedrich Feyrter (1895–1973) was an Austrian pathologist who proposed in 1938 that scattered hormone-producing cells form the diffuse endocrine system, and is called the Father of Neuroendocrinology.

Friedrich Grimminger

Friedrich Grimminger is a German pulmonary physician-scientist, professor of internal medicine at Justus Liebig University Giessen since 2003, known for the Giessen pharmacotherapy program in pulmonary hypertension.

Friedrich Grummt

Friedrich Grummt was a German molecular biologist and professor of biochemistry at the University of Würzburg who showed that purine nucleotide pools control ribosomal RNA synthesis.

Friedrich K. Port

Friedrich K. Port, also known as Friedrich Port or Fritz Port, is a German-born nephrologist and outcomes researcher known for large-scale studies of mortality in dialysis and transplant patients.

Friedrich Loeffler

Friedrich Loeffler (1852–1915) was a German bacteriologist who isolated the diphtheria bacillus in 1884 and, with Paul Frosch, showed in 1898 that foot-and-mouth disease was caused by the first animal virus.

Friedrich Philipp Ellinger

Friedrich Philipp Ellinger (1900–1962) was a German-American physician and radiation biologist who worked at the University of Berlin, moved to New York by 1941, and wrote influential textbooks on radiation therapy.

Friedrich Reinitzer

Friedrich Reinitzer (1857–1927) was an Austrian botanist and chemist in Prague and Graz whose 1888 observation of cholesteryl benzoate's double melting point founded the field of liquid crystals.

Friedrich Sigmund Merkel

Friedrich Sigmund Merkel (1845–1919) was a German anatomist and histopathologist who in 1875 first described the touch cells of the skin, now called Merkel cells; the skin cancer Merkel cell carcinoma also bears his name.

Friedrich W. Mohr

Friedrich W. Mohr, in full Friedrich Wilhelm Mohr, is a German cardiac surgeon who led the SYNTAX trial and directed cardiac surgery at the Leipzig Heart Center from 1994 to 2017.

Fritiof Holmgren

Fritiof Holmgren (Alarik Frithiof Holmgren) was a Swedish physiologist at Uppsala University who in 1866 reported electrical changes in the eye and invented a wool-skein test for color blindness.

Fritiof S. Sjöstrand

Fritiof S. Sjöstrand (Fritiof Stig Sjöstrand, 1912–2011) was a Swedish physician and histologist who pioneered biological electron microscopy at the Karolinska Institute before moving to UCLA in 1959.

Fritjof Helmchen

Fritjof Helmchen is a German systems neuroscientist, Professor of Neuroscience and Co-Director of the Brain Research Institute at the University of Zurich, known for two-photon imaging of the living brain.

Frits R. Rosendaal

Frits R. Rosendaal (born 1959) is a Dutch physician-scientist, professor of clinical epidemiology at Leiden University, known for identifying genetic and acquired causes of venous thrombosis.

Frits Warmolt Went

Frits Warmolt Went (1903–1990) was a Dutch-American plant physiologist whose 1926 oat coleoptile experiment first demonstrated auxin, and who built the first phytotron at Caltech.

Fritz Baltzer

Fritz Baltzer (1884–1974) was a Swiss zoologist and embryologist, professor at Bern, known for newt and salamander hybrid merogone experiments on how nucleus and cytoplasm direct development.

Fritz H. Bach

Fritz H. Bach (1934–2011) was an American transplantation immunologist who enabled the first successful matched bone marrow transplants, helped define HLA class I and II antigens, and led the debate on xenotransplantation.