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Graeme Wistow

Graeme J. Wistow is a molecular biologist at the US National Eye Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, known for gene sharing, lens crystallin structure, and NEIBank.

Grafton Elliot Smith

Grafton Elliot Smith (1871–1937) was an Australian-born anatomist and Egyptologist who held chairs in Cairo, Manchester, and London and pioneered palaeopathology on ancient Nubian remains.

Graham A. Colditz

Graham A. Colditz is an Australian-born cancer epidemiologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, known for linking postmenopausal hormone therapy to breast cancer risk and for breast cancer risk prediction models.

Graham A. MacGregor

Graham A. MacGregor, also known as G A MacGregor, was a British professor of cardiovascular medicine who founded Action on Salt and drove the UK's national salt-reduction program.

Graham A.R. Johnston

Graham A.R. Johnston, born 1939 in Sydney, is an Australian medicinal chemist and pharmacologist who established bicuculline as a GABA antagonist and was Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Sydney from 1980 to 2011.

Graham C. Walker

Graham C. Walker (born 1948) is an American molecular biologist, a longtime MIT professor elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2013, known for DNA repair research.

Graham Carpenter

Graham Carpenter is Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University who joined Stanley Cohen's EGF program, helped characterize the epidermal growth factor receptor in 1978, and studied ErbB receptor signaling.

Graham D. Farquhar

Graham D. Farquhar, also known as G. D. Farquhar, is an Australian plant physiologist at the Australian National University, best known for the 1980 Farquhar–von Caemmerer–Berry model of photosynthetic CO2 assimilation.

Graham F. Hatfull

Graham F. Hatfull is a University of Pittsburgh microbiologist who studies mycobacteriophages, built the PhagesDB collection, and developed phages used in the first engineered phage therapy.

Graham H. Jeffries

Graham H. Jeffries (1929–2023) was a New Zealand–trained gastroenterologist who became founding chair of medicine at Penn State and showed antibodies to intrinsic factor in pernicious anemia.

Graham L. Collingridge

Graham L. Collingridge, also published as G.L. Collingridge, is a neuroscientist who showed how the NMDA receptor triggers long-term potentiation, the strengthening of synapses underlying learning and memory.

Graham M. Teasdale

Graham M. Teasdale, also known as Graham Teasdale, is a Scottish neurosurgeon and Emeritus Professor at the University of Glasgow who co-created the Glasgow Coma Scale.

Graham R.V. Hughes

Graham R.V. Hughes, known as Graham Hughes, is a British rheumatologist who described the antiphospholipid syndrome, known as Hughes syndrome, and founded the lupus research unit at St Thomas' Hospital in London.

Graham Steell

Graham Steell (1851–1942) was a British physician and cardiologist at Manchester Royal Infirmary, regarded as the leading heart-disease consultant in northern England; the Graham Steell murmur is named for him.

Graham T. McMahon

Graham T. McMahon, also known as Graham McMahon, is an Irish-trained endocrinologist and President and CEO of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education in Chicago since 2015.

Graham Thornicroft

Graham Thornicroft is a British community psychiatrist and Emeritus Professor at King's College London, known for research on mental illness stigma and co-chairing the 2022 Lancet Commission on ending stigma.

Graham Warren

Graham Warren (born 1948) is a British cell biologist known for his work on the organization, mitotic disassembly, and inheritance of the Golgi apparatus, and a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Grant A. McArthur

Grant A. McArthur is an Australian medical oncologist and melanoma researcher at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre who led the BRIM-3 and coBRIM trials establishing vemurafenib and cobimetinib.

Grant D. Huang

Grant D. Huang (Grant Huang) is an American clinical trials researcher who has been Acting Chief Research and Development Officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs since February 2025.

Grant J. Anhalt

Grant J. Anhalt is a physician-scientist and professor of dermatology at Johns Hopkins, known for the 1982 experiment proving pemphigus autoantibodies are pathogenic and for defining paraneoplastic pemphigus.

Grant J. Jensen

Grant J. Jensen is an American structural biologist known for pioneering electron cryotomography of bacterial cells, and since 2020 he has been a dean at Brigham Young University.

Grant R. Sutherland

Grant R. Sutherland, born 1945, is an Australian human cytogeneticist known for his work on fragile sites on chromosomes and for the dynamic mutation concept underlying fragile X syndrome.

Grant W. Liddle

Grant W. Liddle (1921–1989) was an American endocrinologist at Vanderbilt University whose work defined the modern diagnosis of adrenal gland disorders; Liddle's syndrome, a hereditary hypertension, is named for him.

Grantley W. Taylor

Grantley W. Taylor, full name Grantley Walder Taylor, was an American surgeon and cancer researcher at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital, known for work on lymph-node metastases and hindquarter amputation.

Gray Camp

J. Gray Camp is a Swiss-based developmental and computational biologist at Roche's Institute of Human Biology in Basel, known for single-cell atlases of human organoids.

Greet Van den Berghe

Greet Van den Berghe (Greet H. A. Van den Berghe) is a Belgian intensive care physician and endocrinology researcher, professor at KU Leuven and head of intensive care at UZ Leuven since 2002.

Greg Asner

Greg Asner is an American ecologist who directs Arizona State University's Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science in Hawaiʻi, mapping forests and coral reefs worldwide.

Greg Gage

Greg Gage is a neuroscientist and electrical engineer who co-founded Backyard Brains in 2009, which sells affordable kits letting students record electrical signals from living neurons.

Greg Goodall

Greg Goodall, also known as Gregory J. Goodall, is an Australian cancer researcher at SA Pathology and Adelaide University known for work on microRNAs and circular RNAs in cancer metastasis.

Greg J. Bashaw

Greg J. Bashaw is an American neuroscientist and Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania, known for work on axon guidance signaling in fly and mouse.