Life and health scientists

Gavin J. Wright

Gavin J. Wright is a British microbial biochemist and parasitologist at the University of York known for identifying the fertilization receptor Juno and the malaria receptor basigin.

Gavin Kelsey

Gavin Kelsey is an epigeneticist who heads the Epigenetics program at the Babraham Institute in the United Kingdom, known for work on DNA methylation in oocytes and single-cell methylome methods.

Gavin P Dunn

Gavin P Dunn is an American neurosurgeon and neuro-oncology researcher at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital who develops personalized neoantigen vaccines for glioblastoma.

Sep 17, 2026

Gavin Price

Gavin R. Price is a cognitive neuroscientist studying numerical cognition with fMRI, an Associate Professor at the University of Exeter and recipient of the 2025 PECASE award.

Gavin Screaton

Gavin Screaton is a British immunologist who has headed the Medical Sciences Division at the University of Oxford since 2017, known for work on dengue antibodies and SARS-CoV-2 variant escape.

Gavin Sherlock

Gavin Sherlock is a yeast geneticist and Professor of Genetics at Stanford, coauthor of the Gene Ontology paper and known for lineage tracking of evolving yeast.

Sep 17, 2026

Gayan Mirihana Arachchilage

Gayan Mirihana Arachchilage is an RNA biologist who discovered more than 100 bacterial non-coding RNA motifs and three riboswitch classes in Ronald Breaker's Yale laboratory.

Gaylord Simpson

George Gaylord Simpson (1902–1984) was an American paleontologist, a key founder of the modern evolutionary synthesis and author of Tempo and Mode in Evolution (1944).

Ge Wang

Ge Wang (王革) is a medical imaging scientist who pioneered cone-beam spiral CT in 1991 and directs the Biomedical Imaging Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Gebhard F. X. Schertler, born 1957, is an Austrian structural biologist known for determining structures of membrane proteins and G protein-coupled receptors like rhodopsin, and headed Biology and Chemistry at the Paul Scherrer Institute.

Gebisa Ejeta

Gebisa Ejeta is an Ethiopian plant breeder and geneticist whose drought- and Striga-resistant sorghum hybrids transformed farming across sub-Saharan Africa, earning the 2009 World Food Prize.

Geerat J. Vermeij

Geerat J. Vermeij (G. J. Vermeij) is a Dutch-born American evolutionary biologist and paleobiologist, blind since age three, who studied shells at UC Davis and proposed the escalation hypothesis.

Geert Carmeliet

Geert Carmeliet is a Belgian physician-scientist and emeritus professor at KU Leuven who leads the MeBoDD laboratory, studying how skeletal cell metabolism governs bone development, regeneration, and disease.

Geert D’Haens

Geert D'Haens (born 1962) is a gastroenterologist specializing in inflammatory bowel disease, full professor at the University of Amsterdam and head of gastroenterology at Amsterdam UMC.

Geert J.P.L. Kops

Geert J.P.L. Kops is a Dutch cell biologist who studies how cells segregate chromosomes during division; he directs the Hubrecht Institute and is a professor at UMC Utrecht.

Geeta J. Narlikar

Geeta J. Narlikar is an Indian-born chromatin biologist at UCSF known for work on chromatin remodeling and HP1 phase separation, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

Geltrude Mingrone

Geltrude Mingrone is an Italian physician-scientist, professor at King's College London and in Rome, who pioneered showing bariatric surgery puts type 2 diabetes into remission.

Gen Sobue

Gen Sobue (祖父江元) is a Japanese neurologist known for research on ALS and spinobulbar muscular atrophy, professor at Nagoya University and president of Aichi Medical University.

Gen Suwa

Gen Suwa (諏訪元, born 1954) is a Japanese paleoanthropologist at the University of Tokyo, known for fossil-ape and early-human fieldwork in Ethiopia, including the Ardipithecus ramidus research.

Gen‐Sheng Feng

Gen-Sheng Feng (冯根生) is a molecular biologist known for discovering the signaling enzyme Shp2 and showing it can suppress liver cancer rather than promote it.

Gen'ichi Katō

Gen'ichi Katō (加藤元一) was a Japanese physiologist at Keio University who argued from 1923 that nerve impulses cross narcotised regions without decrement, and trained Ichiji Tasaki.

Gene E. Likens

Gene E. Likens, born 1935 in Indiana, is an American ecosystem ecologist who co-founded the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study and co-discovered acid rain in North America.

Gene E. Robinson

Gene E. Robinson is an American entomologist and behavioral biologist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who pioneered the genomics of social behavior using honey bees.

Gene Feder

Gene Feder is a British general practitioner and professor of primary care at the University of Bristol, best known for the IRIS domestic violence program for general practice.

Gene G. Hunder

Gene G. Hunder is an American rheumatologist and emeritus physician at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for research on giant cell arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica.

Gene H. Stollerman

Gene H. Stollerman (1921–2014) was an American physician and medical researcher known for showing that monthly penicillin injections prevent rheumatic fever, and later a Boston University geriatrics leader.

Gene Tyson

Gene W. Tyson is an Australian microbial ecologist and bioinformatician at Queensland University of Technology, known for metagenomics and for CheckM, a widely used genome-quality tool.

Gene‐Wei Li

Gene-Wei Li is a quantitative molecular biologist at MIT who studies how bacterial genomes encode precise protein levels; he joined MIT in 2015 and became an HHMI investigator in 2024.

General Fox (army officer)

General Fox was the name under which the 1948 Nobel Committee credited Brigadier General Leon Alexander Fox, who directed the DDT dusting campaign against the 1943 Naples typhus epidemic.