Life and health scientists

Gerhard Hummer

Gerhard Hummer (born 1966) is an Austrian theoretical biophysicist who has directed the Department of Theoretical Biophysics at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt since 2013.

Gerhard Klebe is a German chemist and structural biologist, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at the Philipps-Universität Marburg from 1996 to 2020, known for structure-based drug design and co-founding BioSolveIT.

Sep 17, 2026

Gerhard Levy

Gerhard Levy (1928–2017) was a German-born American pharmaceutics scientist and pioneer of pharmacokinetics who taught at the University at Buffalo from 1958 to 2000.

Gerhard Meissner

Gerhard Meissner (1937–2021) was a German-born biochemist and biophysicist at UNC Chapel Hill known for purifying and reconstituting the ryanodine receptor, the skeletal muscle calcium release channel.

Gerhard Opelz

Gerhard Opelz is an Austrian transplantation immunologist who led transplantation immunology at the University of Heidelberg from 1981 to 2015 and founded the Collaborative Transplant Study in 1982.

Gerhard Schmidt (biochemist)

Gerhard Schmidt (1901–1981) was a German-born American biochemist who spent over forty years at Tufts University School of Medicine, known for the Schmidt–Thannhauser method for measuring DNA and RNA.

Gerhard Schramm

Gerhard Schramm (1910–1969) was a German biochemist at the Max Planck Institute for Virus Research in Tübingen who showed in 1956 that RNA is tobacco mosaic virus's genetic material.

Gerhard Schüler

Gerhard Schüler, also spelled Gerhard Schuler, is a German cardiologist and long-serving clinic director at the Herzzentrum Leipzig, known for the IABP-SHOCK II cardiogenic shock trial.

Gerhard Steinbeck

Gerhard Steinbeck, born 1946 in Göttingen, is a German cardiologist known for trials on arrhythmias and risk stratification after myocardial infarction, including the IRIS trial.

Gerhard Wagner (biophysicist)

Gerhard Wagner, born 1945, is a Harvard Medical School biophysicist known for protein NMR spectroscopy, where he has been a professor since 1990 and developed triple-resonance NMR methods.

Gerhardt Attard

Gerhardt Attard is a medical oncologist, Professor at University College London, and Director of the UCL Cancer Institute since 2024, known for circulating tumor DNA research and abiraterone development in advanced prostate cancer.

Gerhart U. Ryffel

Gerhart U. Ryffel is a molecular and developmental biologist known for the Xenopus vitellogenin gene system as a model of steroid hormone control, and later HNF1 and HNF4.

Gero Miesenböck

Gero Miesenböck, born 1965 in Upper Austria, is an Austrian neuroscientist and Waynflete Professor of Physiology at Oxford who established optogenetics, controlling neurons with light.

Gerold Bepler

Gerold Bepler is a German-educated thoracic oncologist specializing in lung cancer, known for research on RRM1 and ERCC1 as biomarkers for non-small-cell lung cancer treatment.

Gerold Schubiger

Gerold Schubiger is a developmental biologist and professor at the University of Washington, known for research on cell cycle control and regeneration in the fruit fly Drosophila.

Gerold Schuler

Gerold Schuler is an Austrian-born dermatologist and immunologist known for discovering dendritic cell maturation and for developing dendritic cell vaccines against cancer at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen in Germany.

Gerrit Grijns

Gerrit Grijns (1865–1944) was a Dutch physiologist who, working in Batavia from 1896, first clearly stated that foods contain substances needed to protect the nervous system, the vitamin concept.

Gerrit J. Poelarends

Gerrit J. Poelarends is a Dutch biochemist and professor of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at the University of Groningen, known for engineering enzymes to synthesize chiral amino acids.

Gerry Wright

Gerry Wright, also known as Gerard D. Wright, is a Canadian biochemist at McMaster University who introduced the antibiotic "resistome" concept and won the 2024 Killam Prize.

Sep 17, 2026

Gertjan Medema

Gertjan Medema is a Dutch water microbiologist at KWR Water Research Institute and TU Delft, known for pioneering wastewater-based epidemiology and winning the 2024 Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize.

Gertrud Hurler

Gertrud Hurler, née Zach (1889–1965), was a German pediatrician in Munich whose 1920 paper gave the first widely cited description of Hurler syndrome, the severe form of MPS I.

Gertrud M. Schüpbach

Gertrud M. Schüpbach is a Swiss-born developmental geneticist at Princeton University whose work on fruit fly oogenesis uncovered the gurken and torpedo signaling genes, a ligand and receptor of the EGF receptor pathway.

Gertrude B. Elion

Gertrude B. Elion was an American biochemist and pharmacologist who designed drugs from nucleic acid metabolism at Burroughs Wellcome, sharing the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Gertrude Henle

Gertrude Henle (1912–2006) was a German American virologist who, with her husband Werner, proved Epstein-Barr virus causes infectious mononucleosis and linked it to Burkitt lymphoma and nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

Gerty Cori

Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz, was an Austro-Hungarian-born American biochemist at Washington University who shared the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for glycogen research.

Gervasio A. Lamas

Gervasio A. Lamas is a cardiologist who chairs medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach and led the MOST, SAVE PACe, and TACT trials.

Sep 17, 2026

Gery Guy

Gery P. Guy is an American health economist at the CDC's Division of Overdose Prevention who studies prescription drug dispensing and the costs of substance use and overdose.

Géza Mansfeld

Géza Mansfeld was a Hungarian physician and pharmacologist, born 1882 and died 1950, who trained two future Nobel laureates and was nominated for the 1928 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Ghassan K. Abou‐Alfa

Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa is a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who specializes in primary liver cancer and led the CELESTIAL cabozantinib trial.