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Grzegorz Ira

Grzegorz Ira is a molecular biologist and professor of molecular and human genetics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, who studies DNA double-strand break repair and genome instability.

Guadalupe García–Tsao

Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao, born in Mexico City, is a hepatologist, Professor of Medicine at Yale, and Chief of Digestive Diseases at VA Connecticut, known for portal hypertension and cirrhosis research.

Guang‐Zhong Yang

Guang-Zhong Yang (杨广中) is a medical robotics researcher and founding dean of the Institute of Medical Robotics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and founding editor of Science Robotics.

Gudrun Rappold

Gudrun Rappold (born 1954) is a German human geneticist who led molecular human genetics at Heidelberg University and discovered SHOX, the gene behind short stature in Turner syndrome.

Guenter J. Krejs

Guenter J. Krejs (Günter Josef Krejs) is an Austrian-American gastroenterologist, emeritus professor at the Medical University of Graz, known for the 1979 somatostatinoma syndrome paper.

Guenther Boden

Guenther Boden (1935–2015) was a German-born endocrinologist and diabetes researcher at Temple University who first showed that elevated blood fatty acids interfere with insulin's action.

Guido Baccelli

Guido Baccelli was an Italian physician and statesman, professor of clinical medicine at the University of Rome and repeated Minister of Public Instruction, who promoted the Policlinico Umberto I.

Guido Kroemer

Guido Kroemer, born 1961, is an Austrian-Spanish cell biologist and cancer researcher working in Paris, known for discovering how mitochondrial membrane permeabilization ignites cell death and for the concept of immunogenic cell death.

Guido Lucarelli

Guido Lucarelli, born 1934 in Lucca, is an Italian hematologist who made allogeneic bone marrow transplantation a curative treatment for thalassemia, developing the Pesaro classification and transplant protocols at Pesaro.

Guido Majno

Guido Majno (1922–2010) was an Italian-born pathologist who explained how blood vessels leak during inflammation and co-discovered the myofibroblast, the contractile cell that closes wounds.

Guido Marcucci

Guido Marcucci is an Italian-born American physician-scientist who studies and treats acute myeloid leukemia; since 2014 he has directed the Gehr Family Center for Leukemia Research at City of Hope.

Guido Pontecorvo

Guido Pontecorvo (1907–1999) was an Italian-born British geneticist who discovered the parasexual cycle in fungi, became the University of Glasgow's first Professor of Genetics, and won the Darwin Medal in 1978.

Guido Silvestri

Guido Silvestri is an Italian-born physician-scientist at Emory University who studies why sooty mangabeys infected with SIV never develop AIDS, informing HIV vaccine and cure research.

Guido Tricot

Guido J. Tricot is a Belgian-born hematologist-oncologist and myeloma researcher known for developing Total Therapy, which raised median survival for newly diagnosed patients from 2.5 years to 10 or more.

Guillaume Canaud

Guillaume Canaud is a French nephrologist at Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades in Paris whose work led to the 2022 FDA approval of alpelisib for PIK3CA-related overgrowth spectrum.

Guillaume Paré

Guillaume Paré is a Canadian physician-scientist and Professor of Pathology and Molecular Medicine at McMaster University, known for his 2010 study of CYP2C19 genotype and clopidogrel.

Guillén Fernández

Guillén Fernández is a cognitive neuroscientist and clinical neurologist who studies how stress shapes memory, leading Radboud University Medical Center and the Donders Institute in Nijmegen.

Guillermina Lozano

Guillermina Lozano is a geneticist and chair of genetics at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, known for defining p53 as a transcription factor.

Guillermo E. Umpierrez

Guillermo E. Umpierrez is an American endocrinologist, professor of medicine at Emory University, and chief of diabetes and endocrinology at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.

Guillermo J. Tearney

Guillermo J. Tearney is a physician-scientist, pathologist, and physicist at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital known for pioneering in vivo optical coherence tomography and the swallowable imaging capsule.

Guillermo Montoya

Guillermo Montoya, born 1967 in Madrid, is a Spanish structural biologist and professor at the University of Copenhagen, known for structures of CRISPR-Cas12a and engineered meganucleases for genome editing.

Guillermo Oliver

Guillermo Oliver is a developmental and vascular biologist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, known for identifying Prox1 as the first marker of lymphatic endothelial cells.

Guillermo Prado

Guillermo (Willy) Prado is an American prevention scientist at the University of Miami, known for the Familias Unidas family intervention and elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2021.

Gunnar Ågren

Gunnar Ågren, born 1907 in Nacka, was a Swedish physician and biochemist who served as professor of medical chemistry at Uppsala University from 1947 to 1973.

Gunnar Blix

Gunnar Blix (Fritiof Gunnar Blix, 1894–1981) was a Swedish medical chemist, professor at Uppsala University from 1930 to 1961, known for isolating sulfatide and crystallizing sialic acid.

Gunnar C. Hansson

Gunnar C. Hansson, born 1951 in Lessebo, Sweden, is a Swedish biochemist and professor at the University of Gothenburg known for the two-layer model of colonic mucus.

Gunnar Holmgren

Gunnar Holmgren (1875–1954) was a Swedish physician, Sweden's first professor of ear, nose, and throat diseases at Karolinska Institutet, remembered as the father of Swedish ENT for introducing the binocular operating microscope to ear surgery.

Gunnar Juliusson

Gunnar Juliusson is a Swedish hematologist and leukemia researcher, Professor of Laboratory Medicine at Lund University, known for defining the chromosomal prognostic subgroups of CLL in 1990.

Gunnar Steineck

Gunnar Steineck was a Swedish physician and professor of clinical cancer epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet and the University of Gothenburg, known for patient-reported outcome research among cancer survivors.

Gunnar Svaetichin

Gunnar Svaetichin (1915–1981) was a physiologist who recorded the first intracellular light-evoked responses from the vertebrate retina, the S-potentials, opening the study of retinal interneurons and color opponency.