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George K. Aghajanian
George K. Aghajanian (1932–2023) was an American neuroscientist and psychiatrist at Yale who made the first recordings of serotonin and dopamine neurons in the living brain.
George K. Davis
George Kelso Davis (1910–2004) was an American animal and nutritional scientist at the University of Florida, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976.
George K. Michalopoulos
George K. Michalopoulos (Γεώργιος Μιχαηλόπουλος) is a Greek-born American physician-scientist who has studied liver regeneration since 1975 and chaired pathology at the University of Pittsburgh.
George Kassiotis
George Kassiotis, also published as Georgios Kassiotis, is an immunologist who leads Retroviral Immunology at The Francis Crick Institute and is Professor of Retrovirology at Imperial College London.
George Kenneth Mallory
George Kenneth Mallory was an American pathologist, son of Frank Burr Mallory, who directed the Mallory Institute at Boston City Hospital and co-described the Mallory–Weiss bleeding syndrome in 1929.
George Khoury (molecular biologist)
George Khoury (1943–1987) was an American molecular biologist at the National Cancer Institute who produced the first transcription map of an animal virus and identified genetic enhancers.
George Klein (cancer biologist)
George Klein, born Georg Klein (1925–2016), was a Hungarian-born Swedish cancer biologist at Karolinska Institutet who pioneered tumor immunology and linked Burkitt lymphoma to Epstein-Barr virus.
George Koob
George F. Koob is an American neuroscientist known for establishing the neurobiology of drug and alcohol addiction and for directing the NIAAA at NIH since 2014.
George Kunos
George Kunos is a Hungarian-born pharmacologist, Scientific Director of NIAAA at NIH, known for linking endocannabinoids to appetite and developing peripheral CB1 antagonists.
George Kuo
George Kuo, also known as George Kuo Ching-Hung, is a Taiwanese-born virologist who co-discovered the hepatitis C virus at Chiron in 1989 and developed its first antibody test.
George L. Bakris
George L. Bakris was an American nephrologist and hypertension researcher who directed the University of Chicago's Comprehensive Hypertension Center and led trials including SYMPLICITY HTN-3 and KARDIA-1.
George L. King
George L. King is an American physician-scientist who directs research at Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard, known for identifying VEGF as a driver of diabetic retinopathy.
George L. Nardi
George L. Nardi, born 1923, was a general surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School known for esophageal and pancreatic operations and surgical textbooks.
George Ledyard Stebbins
George Ledyard Stebbins (1906–2000) was an American botanist and geneticist who extended the modern evolutionary synthesis to plants through his 1950 book Variation and Evolution in Plants.
George Lincoln Goodale
George Lincoln Goodale (1839–1923) was an American botanist and Harvard professor known for Physiological Botany (1885) and for building Harvard's botanical museum around the Blaschka glass models of plants.
George Linius Streeter
George Linius Streeter (1873–1948) was an American embryologist who directed the Carnegie Institution's Department of Embryology from 1917 to 1940 and devised the developmental horizons for staging early human embryos.
George M. Church
George M. Church is an American geneticist and Harvard Medical School professor whose lab's methods underlie next-generation sequencing and whose 2013 work helped establish CRISPR-Cas9 in human cells.
George M. Shaw
George M. Shaw is an American virologist and physician-scientist, Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, known for the first molecular clones of HIV-1 and its quasispecies structure.
George M. Weinstock
George M. Weinstock is an American geneticist who co-led the Human Genome Project at Baylor College of Medicine and later directed microbial genomics at the Jackson Laboratory.
George M. Woodwell
George M. Woodwell (1928–2024) was an American ecologist who measured how ecosystems store and release carbon, documented DDT's persistence, and founded the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
George Melchers
George Melchers (Johann Georg Friedrich Melchers, 1906–1997) was a German plant biologist who spent about 30 years at the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen and pioneered protoplast fusion.
George N. Ioannou
George N. Ioannou is an American hepatologist who is Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington and Director of Hepatology at the VA Puget Sound in Seattle.
George N. Pavlakis
George N. Pavlakis is a virologist who led the National Cancer Institute's Human Retrovirus Section until 2021, known for mammalian-cell hormone production and codon/RNA optimization used in vaccines.
George O'connor
George T. O'Connor is an American pulmonologist and genetic epidemiologist at Boston University and Boston Medical Center whose research focuses on asthma, allergy, COPD, and sleep apnea.
George Oliver (physician)
George Oliver (1841–1915) was an English physician and physiologist who showed in 1894–95 that adrenal extract powerfully raises blood pressure, laying the groundwork for adrenaline.
George Oster
George Oster, also known as George F. Oster, was an American mathematical biologist and biophysicist at UC Berkeley who modeled cells as mechanochemical machines and the ATP synthase motor.
George P. Browman
George P. Browman is a Canadian medical oncologist and clinical epidemiologist known for head and neck cancer research and for founding Cancer Care Ontario's Program in Evidence-Based Care.
George P. Canellos
George P. Canellos is an American medical oncologist known for combination chemotherapy for Hodgkin's disease, first at the National Cancer Institute and then as founding chief of medical oncology at Dana-Farber.
George P. Chrousos
George P. Chrousos, born 1951 in Patras, Greece, is a Greek pediatric endocrinologist known for systematizing the stress system concept and serving as President of the Hellenic Pasteur Institute.
George P. Hess
George P. Hess (1922–2015) was an American biochemist who spent 60 years at Cornell University developing rapid chemical-kinetic techniques that made neurotransmitter receptors measurable on millisecond time scales.