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Gerald Klerman

Gerald L. Klerman (1928–1992), American psychiatrist, co-developer of interpersonal psychotherapy with Myrna Weissman, designer of the NIMH TDCRP, ADAMHA administrator 1977–1980, and coiner of "neo-Kraepelinian".

Gerald L. Andriole

Gerald L. Andriole is an American urologic oncologist who led the PLCO prostate cancer screening trial and the REDUCE prevention trial, and was chief of urologic surgery at Washington University.

Gerald L. Hazelbauer

Gerald L. Hazelbauer is an American biochemist known for his research on bacterial chemotaxis in E. coli and a professor emeritus at the University of Missouri.

Gerald L. Logue

Gerald L. Logue was an American hematologist and professor of medicine who led the University at Buffalo's hematology division from 1982 until his death in 2015, aged 73.

Gerald L. Mandell

Gerald Lee Mandell (1936–2023) was an American infectious diseases physician-scientist at the University of Virginia who founded its infectious diseases division and edited the specialty's standard textbook.

Gerald Litwack

Gerald Litwack (1929–2023) was an American biochemist known for the 1971 ligandin discovery and for editing Vitamins and Hormones; he last taught at Texas A&M Health Science Center.

Gerald M. Edelman

Gerald M. Edelman (1929–2014) was an American immunologist and neuroscientist who determined the chemical structure of antibodies, sharing the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Gerald M. Pohost

Gerald M. Pohost is an American physician-scientist in nuclear cardiology and cardiovascular MRI, known for pioneering thallium-201 imaging of ischemia and a professor at USC since 2001.

Gerald M. Reaven

Gerald M. Reaven, also known as G. M. Reaven, was an American physician-scientist at Stanford who established insulin resistance's role in disease and coined Syndrome X.

Gerald N. Wogan

Gerald N. Wogan (1930–2021) was an MIT toxicologist who established aflatoxin, a mold-produced food contaminant, as a cause of liver cancer and shaped FDA aflatoxin limits.

Gerald P. Rodnan

Gerald P. Rodnan (1927–1983) was an American physician-scientist at the University of Pittsburgh, the leading authority of his era on scleroderma and originator of the Rodnan skin score.

Gerald R. Fink

Gerald R. Fink is an American yeast geneticist and founding member of the Whitehead Institute who first showed DNA can be taken up by yeast, making it a model eukaryote.

Gerald R. Smith

Gerald R. Smith is an American molecular biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle who studies DNA repair by homologous recombination in E. coli and fission yeast.

Gerald Rubin

Gerald M. Rubin is an American Drosophila geneticist and neurobiologist who co-developed P-element transgenesis, led the fly genome project, and drove mapping of the fly brain connectome.

Gerald S. Berenson

Gerald S. Berenson (1922–2018) was an American cardiologist at Tulane and LSU who founded the Bogalusa Heart Study, a biracial cohort showing atherosclerosis begins in childhood.

Gerald S. Shadel

Gerald S. Shadel is an American molecular biologist and Salk Institute professor known for showing that mitochondrial DNA released under stress acts as an antiviral signal.

Gerald Salen

Gerald Salen (1935–2020) was an American gastroenterologist and lipid metabolism researcher in New Jersey who defined cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis, sitosterolemia, and Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome, and pioneered chenodeoxycholic acid treatment.

Gerald Schatten

Gerald Schatten (born 1949) is an American reproductive and developmental biologist at the University of Pittsburgh known for showing that the sperm supplies the centrosome at fertilization.

Gerald Schiffman

Gerald Schiffman, published as G. Schiffman, is an immunologist at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn known for his work on antibody responses to pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccines.

Gerald Schwank

Gerald Schwank is a Swiss professor at the University of Zurich's Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology who develops CRISPR genome-editing tools to correct disease-causing mutations.

Gerald T. Keusch

Gerald T. Keusch, born 1938, is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist who directed the NIH Fogarty International Center and studied Shiga toxins and bacterial diarrheal disease.

Gerald T. Nepom

Gerald T. Nepom, known as Jerry Nepom, is an American immunologist who mapped HLA class II genes predisposing people to type 1 diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis.

Gerald W. Dorn

Gerald W. Dorn, also known as Gerald W. Dorn II, is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist at Washington University in St. Louis who studies how genes affect heart failure drug response.

Gerald W. Hart

Gerald W. Hart is an American glycobiologist who discovered O-GlcNAcylation in 1983 and led biological chemistry at Johns Hopkins before joining the University of Georgia.

Gerald W. Smetana

Gerald W. Smetana is an American general internist and Harvard Medical School professor known for preoperative pulmonary risk stratification, including a 1999 NEJM review and a 2006 ACP systematic review.

Gerald W. Zamponi

Gerald Zamponi is a neuroscientist at the University of Calgary whose research on voltage-gated calcium channels and chronic pain made him a Royal Society of Canada Fellow.

Gerald Weissmann

Gerald Weissmann (1930–2019) was an Austrian-born American physician-scientist at New York University who codiscovered and named liposomes, advanced lysosome research, and founded its rheumatology division.

Geraldine Hamilton

Geraldine A. Hamilton is a British cell biologist and toxicologist who formerly served as President and Chief Scientific Officer of Emulate, Inc., the Boston company commercializing human Organs-on-Chips.

Géraldine Seydoux

Géraldine Seydoux is a French-born American developmental biologist at Johns Hopkins and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, known for showing that transcriptional repression establishes the germline.

Gerard B. Odell

Gerard B. Odell (1925–1994) was an American pediatrician known for research on bilirubin metabolism and neonatal jaundice, who led pediatrics at the Medical College of Virginia and gastroenterology at Wisconsin–Madison.