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Gregory Goodwin Pincus

Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903–1967) was an American biologist and endocrinologist who co-developed the first oral contraceptive, Enovid, approved in 1960, and co-founded the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology.

Gregory Gregoriadis

Gregory Gregoriadis, also known as G Gregoriadis, was a Greek-born British biochemist who founded liposome drug delivery, proposing in 1971 that liposomes could carry drugs and vaccines.

Gregory Hannon

Gregory Hannon (1964–2026) was an American molecular biologist who defined the machinery of RNA interference, established microRNAs' roles in cancer, and co-discovered the piRNA pathway.

Gregory J. Dore

Gregory J. Dore, known as Greg Dore, is an Australian hepatologist at the Kirby Institute and St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, known for hepatitis C research and elimination policy.

Gregory J. Gores

Gregory J. Gores is an American hepatologist and gastroenterologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for research on liver cell death and cholangiocarcinoma, and a past president of AASLD.

Gregory J. Quirk

Gregory J. Quirk is a neuroscientist who defined prefrontal-amygdala circuits for fear extinction memory. He is currently Supervising Scientist at the Philippines National Institutes of Health.

Gregory Jefferis

Gregory Jefferies is a systems neuroscientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge who studies the neural basis of behavior in fruit flies.

Gregory L. Challis

Gregory L. Challis is a British chemical biologist and natural products chemist, professor at the University of Warwick and Monash University, known for research on antibiotic biosynthesis.

Gregory L. Verdine

Gregory L. Verdine is an American chemical biologist, Harvard Erving Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, best known for DNA repair research and for inventing stapled peptides.

Gregory McCarthy

Gregory McCarthy is an American cognitive neuroscientist and the Henry Ford II Professor of Psychology at Yale, known for event-related potential and fMRI studies of word and face recognition.

Gregory P. Asner

Gregory P. Asner is an American ecosystem ecologist who maps forests and coral reefs from aircraft and satellites, directing Arizona State University's Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science.

Gregory Petsko

Gregory Petsko is an American biochemist known for determining enzyme structures and founding structural enzymology, who in 2002 turned his laboratory toward finding treatments for Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and ALS.

Gregory R. Dressler

Gregory R. Dressler, also published as Gregory Dressler, is a molecular biologist at the University of Michigan known for identifying the Pax2 gene and defining its role in kidney development.

Gregory R. Mundy

Gregory R. Mundy (1942–2010) was an Australian-born physician-scientist who showed that cancer destroys bone indirectly by activating osteoclasts, credited with discovering osteoclast activating factor and directing Vanderbilt's Center in Bone Biology.

Gregory S. Barsh

Gregory S. Barsh, known as Greg Barsh, is an American geneticist, Stanford professor emeritus and HudsonAlpha faculty chair, known for cloning the mouse mahogany gene and studying coat-color genetics.

Gregory S. Payne

Gregory S. Payne is an American cell biologist and Professor of Biological Chemistry at UCLA whose yeast genetics showed cells survive and secrete without clathrin.

Gregory Shwartzman

Gregory Shwartzman (1896–1965) was a Russian-born American bacteriologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York who described the Shwartzman phenomenon, a two-injection skin reaction, in 1928.

Gregory Sonnenberg

Gregory F. Sonnenberg is an American immunologist at Weill Cornell Medicine whose laboratory studies innate lymphoid cells, T cells, and the microbiota in intestinal immunity, colon cancer, and immunotherapy resistance.

Gregory Steinberg

Gregory R. Steinberg is a Canadian metabolism researcher and professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, co-directing its metabolism research center and known for work on AMPK and metformin.

Gregory Stephanopoulos

Gregory Stephanopoulos, born in Greece in 1950, is a chemical engineer and W. H. Dow Professor at MIT, credited with founding metabolic engineering and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003.

Gregory Stock

Gregory Stock is an American biophysicist and biotech entrepreneur known for advocating human genetic enhancement, directing a UCLA medicine and technology program, and writing Redesigning Humans, which won the Kistler Book Prize.

Gregory T. Armstrong

Gregory T. Armstrong, known as Greg Armstrong, is an American pediatric oncologist and epidemiologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, principal investigator of the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.

Gregory W. Albers

Gregory W. Albers is a vascular neurologist at Stanford University, director of its Stroke Center since 1992, whose DEFUSE 3 trial helped extend stroke treatment to 24 hours.

Gregory Winter

Gregory Winter, also known as Greg Winter, is a British biochemist and protein engineer who pioneered humanized antibodies and shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Gregory Y. Lauwers

Gregory Y. Lauwers is a gastrointestinal pathologist who led GI pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard from 2000 to 2016 and is now a Senior Member at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa.

Gretchen C. Daily

Gretchen C. Daily is an American ecologist at Stanford University who pioneered valuing ecosystems in decision-making; she co-founded the Natural Capital Project, whose InVEST software is used in more than 185 countries.

Griffin P. Rodgers

Griffin P. Rodgers is an American physician-scientist and molecular hematologist who has directed NIDDK at NIH since 2007 and helped develop hydroxyurea, the first effective sickle cell anemia therapy.

Grigore Antipa

Grigore Antipa (1867–1944) was a Romanian biologist and oceanographer who organized Romania's first scientific explorations of the Black Sea and founded the Bucharest natural history museum bearing his name.

Grigory Ivanovich Rossolimo

Grigory Ivanovich Rossolimo (Григорий Иванович Россолимо; 1860–1928) was a Russian neurologist and psychiatrist known for the Rossolimo toe-flexion reflex and for founding Russia's first children's nervous-disease clinic at his own expense in 1911.

Grover M. Hutchins

Grover M. Hutchins (1932–2010) was an American pathologist at Johns Hopkins for 61 years who directed Autopsy Services and published a landmark 1986 study linking the floppy mitral valve to annular disjunction.