Life and health scientists

Glyn Lewis

Glyn Hywel Lewis, born in 1956, is a psychiatric epidemiologist and professor at University College London known for the ANTLER trial of stopping long-term antidepressants and a 2007 Lancet review of cannabis and psychosis.

Godfrey Hounsfield

Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield was an English electrical engineer at EMI who invented the first practical CT scanner and shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Gohta Goshima

Gohta Goshima is a Japanese cell biologist at Nagoya University known for identifying genes required for mitotic spindle assembly and for discovering the augmin complex.

Gökhan S. Hotamışlıgil

Gökhan S. Hotamışlıgil is a physician-scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health who studies how inflammation drives obesity and type 2 diabetes, and coined "metaflammation."

Gonçalo Abecasis

Gonçalo Abecasis is a Portuguese-born statistical geneticist and University of Michigan biostatistics professor, known for the gene-mapping software Merlin and METAL and leading genomics at Regeneron.

Gonçalo Castelo-Branco

Gonçalo Castelo-Branco is a Swedish and Portuguese glial cell biologist, born in 1976, who is Professor of Glial Cell Biology at Karolinska Institutet and studies oligodendrocytes in multiple sclerosis.

Gongyi Zhang

Gongyi Zhang is a structural biologist and professor at National Jewish Health in Denver, known for crystal structures of bacterial RNA polymerase, TALL-1, and JMJD2 histone demethylases.

Gonzalo Cosa

Gonzalo Cosa is an Argentine-born chemist at McGill University, Professor and Chair of Chemistry since 2024, who designs fluorescent probes and single-molecule microscopy to visualize molecular processes one at a time.

Gonzalo E. Torres

Gonzalo E. Torres is a Chilean-born American neuroscientist who studies dopamine transporter regulation, applied to schizophrenia genetics and adolescent psychiatric vulnerability, and won the 2008 PECASE award.

Goodarz Danaei

Goodarz Danaei is a physician and cardiovascular epidemiologist, Bernard Lown Professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, known for the Globorisk model.

Göran Akusjärvi

Göran Akusjärvi is a Swedish molecular biologist and virologist known for using human adenovirus to work out how RNA splicing is regulated; he retired from Uppsala University in 2024.

Goran C. Sedvall

Göran C. Sedvall is a Swedish psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, known for developing PET methods to measure dopamine receptors in the living human brain.

Göran Möller

Göran Möller (1936–2008) was a Swedish immunologist known for his work on B-cell activation and thymus-independent antigens, and for helping found the Scandinavian Society for Immunology in 1969.

Gord Fishell

Gord Fishell (Gordon Fishell) is a developmental neurobiologist, professor of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School since 2017 and a group leader at the Broad Institute.

Gordon B. Cutler

Gordon B. Cutler, Jr. is an American endocrinologist who led the Section on Developmental Endocrinology at NIH's NICHD from 1983 to 1997, then worked with Eli Lilly.

Gordon C. S. Smith

Gordon C. S. Smith is a British obstetrician who has been Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Cambridge since 2001, researching placental dysfunction and stillbirth prevention.

Gordon Cook

Gordon Cook, born 1932, is a British physician and medical historian known for research on tropical sprue and as president of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Gordon D. Logan

Gordon D. Logan, also known as Gordon Logan, is a Canadian-born cognitive psychologist, Centennial Professor at Vanderbilt, known for the 1984 race model of response inhibition.

Gordon D. Rubenfeld

Gordon D. Rubenfeld is an intensivist and clinical epidemiologist at the University of Toronto and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, known for measuring the outcomes of acute respiratory distress syndrome.

Gordon Dougan

Gordon Dougan is a microbiologist and genome scientist, a Senior Group Leader at the Wellcome Sanger Institute known for genomic work on drug-resistant typhoid and vaccine equity.

Gordon F. Tomaselli

Gordon F. Tomaselli is an American cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist who spent 32 years at Johns Hopkins, leading its cardiology division, before becoming dean of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2018.

Gordon Fain

Gordon L. Fain is an American physiologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UCLA known for research on phototransduction, the conversion of light into electrical signals in retinal photoreceptors.

Gordon Fishell

Gordon Fishell is a neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023 for his work on inhibitory interneurons.

Gordon Guyatt

Gordon Guyatt is a Canadian physician and Distinguished University Professor at McMaster University who coined evidence-based medicine in 1990 and co-founded GRADE, used by over 110 organizations worldwide.

Gordon H. Bower

Gordon H. Bower was an American experimental psychologist and learning theorist who spent his 49-year career at Stanford University studying human associative memory and mood.

Gordon H. Dixon

Gordon H. Dixon (1930–2016) was a Canadian biochemist and molecular biologist who helped found the molecular study of spermatogenesis, best known for his protamine work in trout.

Gordon H. Orians

Gordon H. Orians (born 1932) is an American behavioral ecologist and professor emeritus of biology at the University of Washington, known for his studies of blackbirds, habitat selection, and mating systems.

Gordon H. Williams

Gordon H. Williams is an American endocrinologist and Harvard Medical School professor at Brigham and Women's Hospital, known for describing hypertension with inappropriate aldosterone stimulation.

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Gordon J. Freeman

Gordon J. Freeman is an American immunologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School who identified PD-L1 and PD-L2 as the ligands of PD-1.