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Gia Voeltz

Gia Voeltz is an American cell biologist at the University of Colorado Boulder and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, known for her work on membrane contact sites.

Giacomo Cavalli

Giacomo Cavalli (born 1965 in Cremona, Italy) is an Italian-French molecular biologist studying epigenetic inheritance and 3D genome organization; he leads the Chromatin and Cell Biology team at CNRS's Institut de Génétique Humaine in Montpellier.

Giacomo Rizzolatti

Giacomo Rizzolatti is an Italian neuroscientist, emeritus professor of Human Physiology at the University of Parma, known for discovering mirror neurons and winning the 2025 International Prize for Biology.

Giampaolo Merlini

Giampaolo Merlini is an Italian physician-scientist and Professor of Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Pavia who founded its Amyloidosis Research and Treatment Center and shaped AL amyloidosis treatment.

Gian Carlo Viberti

Gian Carlo Viberti is a British diabetologist and Emeritus Professor of Diabetes at King's College London, known for research on microalbuminuria and diabetic kidney disease.

Gian Franco Bottazzo

Gian Franco Bottazzo (1946–2017) was an Italian immunologist who discovered islet cell antibodies in 1974, establishing type 1 diabetes as an autoimmune disease and enabling its prediction.

Gian Gaetano Tartaglia

Gian Gaetano Tartaglia (born 1976) is an Italian computational biologist at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa, known for the catRAPID algorithm predicting protein–RNA interactions.

Gian Gastone Neri Serneri

Gian Gastone Neri Serneri (1925–2020) was an Italian physician and professor of internal medicine at Florence whose clinical trials established low-dose heparin for unstable angina.

Giancarlo Agnelli

Giancarlo Agnelli is an Italian physician-scientist, Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Perugia, known for leading clinical trials of anticoagulants including the Caravaggio trial.

Giancarlo Comi

Giancarlo Comi (1947–2024) was an Italian neurologist and multiple sclerosis researcher who led defining phase 3 trials, co-founded the European Charcot Foundation, and won the 2015 Charcot Award.

Giancarlo Viberti

Giancarlo Viberti is an emeritus professor of diabetes at King's College London who established microalbuminuria as a predictor of diabetic kidney disease and led landmark drug trials.

Gianfranco Alpini

Gianfranco Alpini is an American hepatology researcher known for work on cholangiocyte biology, the ductular reaction, and bile duct diseases, based at Texas A&M from 1994 and later Indiana University.

Gianluigi Veglia

Gianluigi Veglia is a biochemist and biophysicist, a professor at the University of Minnesota since 2000, known for NMR studies of membrane proteins and protein kinases.

Gianni Bonadonna

Gianni Bonadonna (1934–2015) was an Italian medical oncologist at the Istituto Nazionale Tumori in Milan who designed the CMF breast cancer and ABVD Hodgkin lymphoma regimens.

Gianni Cesareni

Gianni Cesareni (G. Cesareni) is an Italian molecular biologist, Full Professor of Genetics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, who founded the MINT protein interaction database.

Gianni Tognoni

Gianni Tognoni, born 1941, is an Italian clinical epidemiologist who led clinical-epidemiological research at the Mario Negri Institute in Milan for 40 years, known for the GISSI trials.

Giannino Del Sal

Giannino Del Sal is an Italian molecular biologist, full professor of Applied Biology at the University of Trieste, known for cloning the growth-arrest gene gas1.

Gianpietro Dotti

Gianpietro Dotti is an Italian-trained physician-scientist who directs the immunotherapy program at UNC Lineberger, where his research engineers CAR T cells to treat lymphoma and solid tumors.

Gianvito Martino

Gianvito Martino is an Italian neurologist and neuroimmunologist, born 1962 in Bergamo, who studies stem cell therapies for multiple sclerosis and led the first neural stem cell trial.

Giao Q. Phan

Giao Q. Phan is a surgical oncologist and cancer immunotherapy researcher whose 2003 study reported complete melanoma regressions from CTLA-4 blockade, cited by the 2018 Nobel Committee.

Gideon A. Rodan

Gideon A. Rodan (1934–2006) was a Romanian-born bone biologist who directed bone biology and osteoporosis research at Merck and helped bring Fosamax, the first bisphosphonate approved for osteoporosis, to market.

Gideon Dreyfuss

Gideon Dreyfuss is a biochemist and Isaac Norris Professor at the University of Pennsylvania whose lab discovered the hnRNP proteins and the SMN complex, whose deficiency causes spinal muscular atrophy.

Gideon Goldstein

Gideon Goldstein is an immunologist and molecular biologist known for co-discovering ubiquitin in 1975 and for isolating thymopoietin, a hormone of the thymus, at Sloan-Kettering.

Gideon Lack

Gideon Lack is a British pediatric allergist, Professor of Paediatric Allergy at King's College London, known for the LEAP trial showing that feeding peanut to high-risk infants prevents peanut allergy.

Gideon M. Hirschfield

Gideon M. Hirschfield is a hepatologist who directs the Autoimmune Liver Disease Program at Toronto General Hospital and led the 2024 phase 3 seladelpar trial for primary biliary cholangitis.

Gideon Rechavi

Gideon Rechavi (Hebrew: גדעון רכאבי) is an Israeli physician-scientist in cancer genomics who heads the Sheba Cancer Research Center and won the 2020 Israel Prize.

Gijs Wuite

Gijs J. L. Wuite is a Dutch molecular biophysicist and professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam who studies single-molecule DNA–protein interactions and co-founded the instrument company LUMICKS in 2014.

Gil Ast

Gil Ast is an Israeli molecular biologist and professor of human molecular genetics at Tel Aviv University known for work on RNA splicing, Alu exonization, and a therapy approach to Familial Dysautonomia.

Gil McVean

Gilean A. T. McVean, known as Gil McVean, is a British statistical geneticist at Oxford who built the first fine-scale human genetic map and led the 1000 Genomes Project.

Gil Rabinovici

Gil Rabinovici, also known as Gil D. Rabinovici, is an American behavioral neurologist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for PET imaging of amyloid and tau proteins in Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.