Life and health scientists

Garth L. Nicolson

Garth L. Nicolson is an American cell biologist who co-authored the 1972 fluid-mosaic model of cell membranes with S. J. Singer, and later studied chronic mycoplasmal infections in Gulf War illness.

Gary A. Glatzmaier

Gary A. Glatzmaier is an American geophysicist who produced the first 3D computer simulations of Earth's geodynamo, showing spontaneous magnetic reversals, and is Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Cruz.

Gary A. Koretzky

Gary A. Koretzky is an American immunologist whose work on CD45 and adapter proteins like SLP-76 defined T cell receptor signaling; he became Cornell's vice provost for research in 2025.

Gary Aston-Jones is an American neuroscientist who directs the Brain Health Institute at Rutgers University and is known for the adaptive-gain theory of locus coeruleus function and orexin's role in addiction.

Gary Banker

Gary Banker, also known as Gary A. Banker, is a cellular and molecular neuroscientist known for defining how a developing neuron acquires its polarized shape.

Gary Bokoch

Gary M. Bokoch (1954–2010) was an American pharmacologist who spent 25 years at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, showing how Rac2 lets neutrophils kill bacteria.

Gary C. Curhan

Gary C. Curhan is an American nephrologist and epidemiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard whose large cohort studies established the dietary determinants of kidney stones and gout.

Gary D. Stormo

Gary D. Stormo is a computational biologist who introduced the position weight matrix for modeling protein binding sites, and was a longtime genetics professor at Washington University in St. Louis.

Gary D. Wu

Gary D. Wu is an American physician-scientist and molecular biologist at the University of Pennsylvania known for linking long-term dietary patterns to gut microbial enterotypes.

Gary E. Bryson

Gary E. Bryson is an American clinical psychologist and schizophrenia rehabilitation researcher at VA Connecticut in West Haven, a frequent coauthor of Yale's Morris D. Bell.

Gary E. Landreth

Gary E. Landreth is an American neuroscientist at the Indiana University School of Medicine who directed Case Western Reserve's Alzheimer Research Laboratory for 27 years and studies Alzheimer's risk genes.

Gary E. Raskob

Gary E. Raskob is an epidemiologist and clinical researcher in thrombosis medicine who led the Hokusai-VTE Cancer trial and became provost of the University of Oklahoma Health Campus in 2022.

Gary E. Shull

Gary E. Shull, also known as Gary Shull, is a molecular biologist at the University of Cincinnati known for sequencing the sodium pump and the 1998 NHE3 knockout study.

Gary Epler

Gary R. Epler is an American pulmonary medicine physician known for his 1985 New England Journal of Medicine description of bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia (BOOP), later classified as cryptogenic organizing pneumonia.

Gary Felsenfeld

Gary Felsenfeld (1929–2024) was an American physical chemist who spent his career at the National Institutes of Health studying chromatin, identifying CTCF as the insulator protein behind genomic enhancer blocking.

Gary G. Borisy

Gary G. Borisy is an American cell biologist who discovered the protein tubulin and developed the dendritic nucleation model of actin-based cell motility, a career-long study of the cytoskeleton.

Gary Gerstenblith

Gary Gerstenblith is an American cardiologist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he is professor of medicine and director of clinical trials in cardiology.

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Gary Greenberg

Gary Greenberg is an American micro photographer, biomedical researcher, and inventor who holds 19 US patents for high-definition 3D light microscopes and photographs sand grains.

Gary H. Karpen

Gary H. Karpen is an American molecular biologist who studies centromeres, heterochromatin, and genome stability in Drosophila, and is a professor at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Gary Huang

Gary B. Huang is a research scientist and software engineer at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus who applies machine learning to reconstructing fruit fly connectomes, and created the Labeled Faces in the Wild benchmark.

Gary J. Bassell

Gary J. Bassell is an American cell biologist at Emory University School of Medicine who studies how mRNA regulation in neurons is lost in fragile X syndrome.

Gary J. Fisher

Gary J. Fisher is a dermatology researcher at the University of Michigan, where he directs the Photoaging and Aging Research Program and studies sun-induced skin aging.

Gary J. Nabel

Gary J. Nabel, also known as Gary Nabel, is an American virologist and immunologist known for DNA vaccines and HIV immunogen design, and CEO of ModeX Therapeutics.

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Gary K. Koski

Gary K. Koski is an immunology researcher, first author of a 2004 Journal of Immunology study, written with Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, on how the innate immune system distinguishes bacterial from eukaryotic RNA.

Gary K. Schoolnik

Gary K. Schoolnik is a physician and Professor of Medicine, Emeritus, at Stanford, known for research on bacterial pili, adhesins, and the molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis.

Gary K. Schwartz

Gary K. Schwartz, also known as Gary Schwartz, is an American medical oncologist who directs the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center at Case Western Reserve University, specializing in sarcoma and melanoma drug development.

Gary L. Darmstadt

Gary L. Darmstadt is an American pediatrician and perinatal epidemiologist who is Associate Dean for Maternal and Child Health at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Gary L. Davis

Gary L. Davis is an American hepatologist known for the 1998 interferon and ribavirin trial for chronic hepatitis C, who led liver units at Florida and Baylor.

Gary L. Peck

Gary L. Peck is an American dermatologist who developed isotretinoin (Accutane) as a treatment for severe cystic acne while a senior investigator at the National Cancer Institute.