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George Bruening
George Emil Bruening (1938–2023) was an American plant pathologist and molecular virologist at UC Davis, known for work on plant resistance to viral diseases and Pierce's disease of grapevines.
George C. Cotzias
George C. Cotzias was a Greek-born American neurologist who developed high-dose oral L-DOPA as a treatment for Parkinson's disease while at Brookhaven National Laboratory, receiving the 1969 Lasker Award.
George C. Ebers
George C. Ebers, born 1946 in Budapest, Hungary, is a Canadian neurologist who showed a major genetic component in multiple sclerosis susceptibility and led the 1986 Canadian twin study.
George C. Hill
George C. Hill (1939–2026) was an American microbiologist and medical educator at Vanderbilt University, known for first culturing the African sleeping sickness parasite and elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1998.
George C. Prendergast
George C. Prendergast is an American cancer researcher who developed IDO inhibitors and studied the Bin1 tumor suppressor gene, leading the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research since 2004.
George C. Tsokos
George C. Tsokos is a physician-scientist studying the immunology of systemic lupus erythematosus, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Rheumatology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
George Carman
George M. Carman is a Rutgers professor whose laboratory identified the yeast PAH1 gene, the homolog of mammalian fat-regulating lipin proteins, and founded its Center for Lipid Research.
George Cassady
George Cassady (1934–2023) was an American neonatologist who founded the Division of Neonatology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1964 and led a landmark 1989 ductus ligation trial.
George Chaconas
George Chaconas is a Canadian molecular geneticist at the University of Calgary, a Canada Research Chair from 2003 to 2017, known for bacteriophage Mu transposition and the molecular biology of Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease spirochete.
George Christopher Williams
George Christopher Williams (1926–2010) was an American evolutionary biologist at Stony Brook University whose 1966 book Adaptation and Natural Selection argued that selection acts on genes and individuals, not groups.
George Coats (ophthalmologist)
George Coats (1876–1915) was a Scottish ophthalmologist and ocular pathologist in London whose 1908 description of massive retinal exudation gave its name to Coats disease.
George Cotsarelis
George Cotsarelis is an American dermatologist and stem cell biologist at the University of Pennsylvania, best known for localizing hair follicle stem cells to the bulge.
George Coukos
George Coukos is a physician-scientist in tumor immunology and cellular immunotherapy who discovered spontaneous antitumor immunity in ovarian cancer and directs the Ludwig Laboratory for Cell Therapy at Weill Cornell Medicine.
George Coupland
George Coupland, born in 1959, is a British plant molecular geneticist directing the Department of Plant Developmental Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne.
George D. Demetri
George D. Demetri is an American medical oncologist who directs the Sarcoma Center at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and developed kinase-inhibitor therapies for gastrointestinal stromal tumors.
George D. Rose
George D. Rose is a biophysicist and Krieger-Eisenhower Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University, known for predicting protein chain turns from hydrophobicity and his 2006 backbone-based folding theory.
George D. Snell
George D. Snell, also known as George Davis Snell, was an American mouse geneticist who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize for discovering the mouse major histocompatibility complex.
George Dangas
George D. Dangas is an interventional cardiologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, known for leading the GALILEO trial of rivaroxaban after TAVR.
George Davey Smith
George Davey Smith, born in 1959, is a British clinical epidemiologist at the University of Bristol who pioneered Mendelian randomization and directs the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit.
George Diamond
George A. Diamond (1941–2015) was an American cardiologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles who pioneered Bayesian probability analysis in cardiovascular medicine, notably in a 1979 New England Journal of Medicine paper.
George E. Cartwright
George E. Cartwright (1917–1980) was an American hematologist who founded the University of Utah's hematology division and became an authority on Wilson's disease and hemochromatosis.
George E. Coghill
George Ellett Coghill (1872–1941) was an American neuroembryologist and anatomist known for decades of study of how the nervous system and behavior develop together in salamanders.
George E. Palade
George E. Palade was a Romanian-born American cell biologist, widely called the founder of modern cell biology, who discovered ribosomes and shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
George E. Schreiner
George E. Schreiner was an American nephrologist who founded and led Georgetown University Hospital's Division of Nephrology from 1951 and became a founding father of dialysis.
George E. Shambaugh Jr.
George E. Shambaugh Jr. (1903–1999) was an American otolaryngologist and Northwestern professor in Chicago who introduced the operating microscope to American ear surgery, refined otosclerosis surgery, and wrote Surgery of the Ear.
George E. Vaillant
George E. Vaillant (born 1934) is an American psychiatrist and Harvard professor known for directing the Harvard Study of Adult Development and for his hierarchy of ego defense mechanisms.
George Eng
George Eng is a physician-scientist in pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard, and MIT's Koch Institute, known for showing how SOX17 lets early colorectal tumors evade immunity.
George Engelmann
George Engelmann (1809–1884) was a German-born American physician and botanist in St. Louis, Missouri, known for monographs on the cacti, conifers, oaks, and grape vines of western North America.
George F. Cahill
George F. Cahill Jr. was an American physician-scientist who worked out how the body switches fuels during fasting, directing research at the Joslin Diabetes Center from 1962 to 1978.
George F. Cahill, Jr.
George F. Cahill, Jr. (1927–2012) was an American physician and metabolism researcher who showed the brain shifts from glucose to fat-derived ketones during starvation, and directed research at the Joslin Diabetes Center.