Life and health scientists

Gunnar Thorson

Gunnar Thorson (1906–1971) was a Danish marine zoologist and ecologist who founded the Marine Biological Laboratory at Helsingør, established Thorson's rule in 1950, and proposed parallel bottom communities.

Gunnar von Heijne

Gunnar von Heijne, born 1951 in Gothenburg, is a Swedish biochemist and professor at Stockholm University known for the positive-inside rule and tools like SignalP and TMHMM.

Günter Blobel

Günter Blobel (1936–2018) was a German-American cell biologist at The Rockefeller University who won the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that proteins carry intrinsic signals governing their transport in the cell.

Günter Breithardt

Günter Breithardt, born 1944 in Haan, is a German cardiologist, professor emeritus at Münster, former European Society of Cardiology president, and co-founder of AFNET, which he chaired from 2003 to 2015.

Gunter Meister

Gunter Meister is a German molecular biologist, professor and chair of Biochemistry at the University of Regensburg since 2009, known for work on microRNAs, Argonaute proteins, and RNA interference.

Günter Weiß

Günter Weiss is an Austrian physician-scientist in internal medicine, hematology, and iron metabolism, director of Internal Medicine II at the Medical University of Innsbruck since 2012.

Günter Wolf

Günter Wolf, also known as Gunter Wolf, is a German nephrologist born in 1961 who directs nephrology at Jena University Hospital and studies diabetic nephropathy.

Gunther Dennert

Gunther Dennert is a German-trained immunologist and Emeritus Professor at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, known for work on natural killer cells and immune regulation.

Günther Deuschl

Günther Deuschl is a German neurologist who led the Department of Neurology at Kiel from 1995 to 2016 and led the randomized trials establishing deep-brain stimulation as a Parkinson's treatment.

Günther Gerisch

Günther Gerisch (1931–2025) was a German cell biologist and Max Planck Institute director known for his work on the actin cytoskeleton and the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum.

Gunther Hartmann

Gunther Hartmann (born 1966) is a German physician and immunologist who studies how the innate immune system detects nucleic acids, directing an institute at University Hospital Bonn since 2007.

Gunther S. Stent

Gunther S. Stent, born Günter Siegmund Stensch, was a German-born American molecular biologist and neurobiologist at UC Berkeley who studied bacterial viruses and the leech nervous system.

Günther Schütz

Günther Schütz (1940–2020) was a German molecular biologist who studied steroid hormone gene regulation and headed a division at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg.

Guo-li Ming

Guo-li Ming (明国莉) is a neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies human brain development using stem cells and brain organoids, including Zika virus research.

Guo‐Min Li

Guo-Min Li is a molecular biochemist and DNA mismatch repair researcher who reconstituted human mismatch repair from purified proteins and directs the Chinese Institute for Cancer Research in Beijing.

Guo‐Ping Shi

Guo-Ping Shi is a principal investigator in cardiovascular medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, known for Nature Medicine papers showing mast cells promote atherosclerosis.

Guojie Zhang

Guojie Zhang (张国捷) is a Chinese genomicist and evolutionary biologist who leads the Bird 10,000 Genomes project and has been a chair professor at Zhejiang University since 2022.

Guojun Bu

Guojun Bu (卜国军) is a neuroscientist known for work on APOE, LRP1, and TREM2 in Alzheimer's disease, and Head of the Division of Life Science at HKUST since 2023.

Guoping Feng

Guoping Feng is an MIT neuroscientist who studies how synapses fail in psychiatric disease, known for the SAPAP3 OCD mouse model and SHANK3 autism gene therapy.

Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey

Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey, also published as Gurjit Khurana Hershey, is a physician-scientist directing asthma research at Cincinnati Children's, known for identifying an interleukin-4 receptor mutation linked to allergy risk.

Gürol M. Süel

Gürol M. Süel is an American-based molecular biologist who is Professor of Molecular Biology at UC San Diego, known for discovering ion channel-mediated electrical signaling in bacterial biofilms.

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Gus R. Rosania

Gus R. Rosania is a pharmaceutical scientist and University of Michigan professor who won a 2006 Presidential Early Career Award and studies drug transport inside cells.

Gust H. Bardy

Gust H. Bardy is a cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist, Clinical Professor at the University of Washington, known for the SCD-HeFT trial and the subcutaneous implantable defibrillator.

Gustaf Retzius

Gustaf Retzius (1842–1919) was a Swedish anatomist and histologist, professor at Karolinska Institutet, remembered for his nervous system and inner-ear research and the Cajal–Retzius cell.

Gustav Albert Schwalbe

Gustav Albert Schwalbe (1844–1916) was a German anatomist and anthropologist, professor at Strasburg, known for Schwalbe's line in the eye and for arguing Neanderthals were a distinct extinct species.

Gustav E. Lienhard

Gustav E. Lienhard (1938–2026) was an American biochemist and longtime Dartmouth professor who traced how insulin signals cells to take up glucose via the transporter GLUT4.

Gustav Embden

Gustav Embden (1874–1933) was a German physiological chemist who, as professor at the University of Frankfurt from 1914, developed liver perfusion and proposed the first coherent scheme for glycolysis, the Embden–Meyerhof–Parnas pathway.

Gustav Fritsch

Gustav Theodor Fritsch (1838–1927) was a German anatomist and anthropologist who, with Eduard Hitzig, published the first experimental demonstration in 1870 that electrical stimulation of the cerebral cortex produces movement.

Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald (1902–1982) was a German-Dutch geologist and vertebrate paleontologist who discovered key Homo erectus fossils at Sangiran, Java, and named Gigantopithecus blacki.