Life and health scientists

George Wald

George Wald (1906–1997) was an American biologist at Harvard who identified vitamin A as the light-absorbing molecule of vision, winning the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

George Watt (physician)

George Watt is a United States Army physician and infectious disease researcher at AFRIMS in Bangkok, known for clinical trials on scrub typhus treatment in northern Thailand.

George Weber (biochemist)

George Weber was a biochemist and physician at the Indiana University School of Medicine who founded the enzymology of cancer cells and developed the Molecular Correlation Concept.

George William Bartelmez

George William Bartelmez (1885–1967) was an American embryologist who spent most of his career at the University of Chicago and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1949.

George Damis Yancopoulos is an American physician-scientist and co-founder of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. He is known for his work in molecular immunology, having been the principal inventor of nine FDA-approved medicines.

George‐Lucian Moldovan

George-Lucian Moldovan is a Romanian-trained molecular biologist, professor and Vice Chair for Research at Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania, who studies DNA replication stress and genomic stability.

Georges Barski

Georges Barski (1909–1985) was a Polish-born French biologist who discovered somatic cell hybridization at the Institut Gustave-Roussy in Villejuif, a technique that later enabled gene mapping and monoclonal antibodies.

Georges Bourguignon

Georges Bourguignon (1876–1963) was a French physician and neurophysiologist who first applied chronaxie to human subjects, building clinical electrodiagnosis at the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris.

Georges de Morsier

Georges de Morsier (1894–1982) was a Swiss neurologist in Geneva who created Switzerland's first hospital neurology unit and is remembered for de Morsier syndrome, the older name for septo-optic dysplasia.

Georges Köhler

Georges Köhler (1946–1995) was a German immunologist who co-developed the hybridoma technique for monoclonal antibodies and shared the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Georges Mer

Georges Mer is a structural biologist and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who studies chromatin modifications in DNA damage repair.

Georgii P. Georgiev

Georgii Pavlovich Georgiev (Георгий Павлович Георгиев) is a Soviet and Russian molecular biologist, born in Leningrad in 1933, who discovered nuclear dRNA as the precursor of messenger RNA.

Georgina M. Mace

Dame Georgina M. Mace (1953–2020) was a British conservation scientist, professor at University College London, who developed the IUCN Red List criteria for assessing species extinction risk.

Georgina V. Long

Georgina V. Long is an Australian medical oncologist and melanoma researcher, Medical Director of Melanoma Institute Australia and a professor at the University of Sydney, named 2024 Australian of the Year.

Georgios Cotzias

Georgios Cotzias (1918–1977) was a Greek-born American physician and National Academy of Sciences member whose high-dose oral L-DOPA treatment reversed Parkinsonism, a milestone in neurology.

Georgios P. Chrousos

Georgios P. Chrousos is a Greek pediatric endocrinologist, born in Patras in 1951, known for work on the HPA axis, glucocorticoid resistance, and the stress system, and elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

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Georgios Skiniotis

Georgios Skiniotis is a structural biologist known for cryo-EM structures of GPCR–G protein and β-arrestin complexes, who won the 2011 PECASE and joined St. Jude in 2024.

Geraint Rees

Geraint Rees is a neurologist and cognitive neuroscientist at University College London, Professor of Cognitive Neurology since 2006 and Vice Provost since 2022, studying the neural basis of consciousness.

Gerald B. Appel

Gerald B. Appel is an American nephrologist at Columbia University, Co-Director of Clinical Nephrology, who directs its Glomerular Kidney Disease Center and led a 2005 NEJM lupus nephritis trial.

Gerald B. Pier

Gerald B. Pier is an American microbiologist and immunologist, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, known for linking the CFTR protein to clearance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Gerald Cohen

Gerald Cohen (1930–2001) was an American researcher in New York who studied free radicals, ethanol toxicity, and catecholamine neurotoxins, and linked oxidative stress to Parkinson's disease.

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Gerald D. Fasman

Gerald D. Fasman was a Canadian-born American biochemist at Brandeis University who co-developed the Chou–Fasman method for predicting protein secondary structure from amino acid sequence.

Gerald D. Fischbach

Gerald D. Fischbach, also known as Gerald Fischbach, is an American neuroscientist known for work on synapse formation who directed NINDS, served as Columbia's medical dean, and founded SFARI.

Gerald F. Watts

Gerald F. Watts is an Australian professor of cardiometabolic medicine at the University of Western Australia, known for the 1992 STARS trial and RNAi lipid-lowering therapies.

Gerald Friedland

Gerald Friedland is an American infectious-diseases physician and HIV/AIDS researcher at Yale since 1991, known for defining AIDS progression in drug users and reporting South Africa's XDR TB outbreak.

Gerald H. Jacobs

Gerald H. Jacobs (1934–2025) was an American visual neuroscientist at UC Santa Barbara who studied how color vision varies across mammals, from squirrel monkeys to mice.

Gerald I. Shulman

Gerald I. Shulman is an American physician-scientist at Yale School of Medicine who pioneered magnetic resonance spectroscopy to study glucose and fat metabolism in living humans.

Gerald J. Gleich

Gerald J. Gleich is an American allergist and immunologist known for his research on eosinophils and for Gleich's syndrome, named after him; he led laboratories at the Mayo Clinic and the University of Utah.

Gerald Joyce

Gerald F. Joyce is an American biochemist and origin-of-life researcher who is President of the Salk Institute, known for in vitro evolution and the first DNA enzymes.