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Gustav Killian

Gustav Killian (1860–1921) was a German laryngologist who performed the first bronchoscopy in 1897, removing a bone from a patient's bronchus, and is called the father of bronchoscopy.

Gustav Nossal

Gustav Nossal, born 1931, is an Austrian-born Australian immunologist who showed that one immune cell produces one antibody and directed the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne from 1965 to 1996.

Gustav Schonfeld

Gustav Schonfeld (1934–2011) was a Czechoslovakia-born American physician-scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, internationally known for research on apolipoprotein B, cholesterol, and heart disease prevention.

Gustav Victor Rudolf Born

Gustav Victor Rudolf Born (1921–2018) was a British pharmacologist who invented the platelet aggregometer, discovered that ADP makes platelets aggregate, and helped establish aspirin for preventing heart attacks and strokes.

Gustav von Hüfner

Gustav von Hüfner (1840–1908) was a German chemist, professor of organic and physiological chemistry at Tübingen from 1875, remembered for determining hemoglobin's oxygen-binding capacity, the Hüfner number.

Gustav Wilhelm Schimmelpenning

Gustav Wilhelm Schimmelpenning (1928–2009) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist who described Schimmelpenning syndrome, also called Feuerstein-Mims syndrome, in 1957 and directed university clinics at Kiel from 1971 to 1994.

Gustave Roussy

Gustave Samuel Roussy (1874–1948) was a Swiss-born French neurologist and pathologist who described Dejerine-Roussy syndrome and founded the Institut Gustave Roussy cancer center in Villejuif.

Gustavo Cudkowicz

Gustavo Cudkowicz, cited as G. Cudkowicz, was a physician-scientist in mouse immunology known for work on bone-marrow transplantation and hybrid resistance, publishing from Buffalo and Roswell Park.

Gustavo D. Aguirre

Gustavo D. Aguirre is a veterinary ophthalmologist and medical geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania, known for canine gene-therapy research underlying the FDA-approved retinal gene therapy Luxturna.

Gustavo Deco

Gustavo Deco is an Argentine-born physicist and computational neuroscientist, an ICREA Research Professor and Catedrático at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, known for whole-brain models of resting-state brain activity.

Gustavo Leone

Gustavo Leone is an American cancer biologist known for work on Rb/E2F and PTEN signaling and cell cycle control, and director of the MCW Cancer Center since 2020.

Gustavo Palacios

Gustavo F. Palacios is an Argentine virologist and molecular epidemiologist, Professor of Microbiology at Mount Sinai since 2021, known for pathogen discovery during outbreaks, including a new transplant-transmitted arenavirus.

Gustavo Turecki

Gustavo Turecki is a Canadian clinician-scientist who studies the neurobiology of depression and suicide, chairing Psychiatry at McGill and directing the Douglas Research Centre in Montreal.

Guy A. Orban

Guy A. Orban is a Belgian visual neuroscientist, emeritus professor at KU Leuven known for work on 3D shape and action representation in primate visual cortex.

Guy A. Rutter

Guy A. Rutter is a diabetes researcher and biochemist who studies pancreatic beta cells and insulin secretion, and heads the Cardiometabolic research theme at CRCHUM in Montreal.

Guy B. de The

Guy B. de The, full name Guy Blaudin de Thé (1930–2014), was a French virologist at the Institut Pasteur whose studies proved the Epstein–Barr virus causes Burkitt's lymphoma.

Guy B. Marks

Guy B. Marks, also known as Guy Marks, is an Australian respiratory physician and epidemiologist who led tuberculosis trials in Vietnam and became President of The Union in 2019.

Guy Brusselle

Guy G. Brusselle is a Belgian pulmonologist and respiratory epidemiologist, a professor at Ghent University and Erasmus MC known for research on severe asthma and COPD.

Guy de Thé

Guy de Thé, full name Guy Blaudin de Thé (1930–2014), was a French virologist at the Institut Pasteur whose cohort studies established Epstein–Barr virus as a cause of Burkitt's lymphoma.

Guy E. Boeckxstaens

Guy E. Boeckxstaens, also published as Guy Boeckxstaens, is a Belgian physician-scientist in neurogastroenterology, a full professor at KU Leuven who led the European Achalasia Trial.

Guy H Palmer

Guy H Palmer is a veterinary pathologist and infectious-diseases researcher at Washington State University, founding director of its Paul G. Allen School for Global Health.

Guy Hughes Palmer

Guy Hughes Palmer is an American veterinary pathologist at Washington State University, founding director of its Paul G. Allen School for Global Health and leader of Rabies Free Africa.

Guy M. Goodwin

Guy M. Goodwin, known as Guy Goodwin, is a British psychiatrist and Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Oxford who led a 2022 psilocybin trial for depression.

Guy Marrian

Guy Frederic Marrian (1904–1981) was a British biochemist who isolated pregnanediol and crystalline oestriol from pregnancy urine, developed the Kober Test, and held chairs at Toronto and Edinburgh.

Guy Rouleau (neurologist)

Guy Rouleau is a Canadian neurologist and neurogeneticist, Chair of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University, known for identifying more than 20 disease-causing genes in brain disorders.

Guy S. Salvesen

Guy S. Salvesen is a biochemist and Professor Emeritus at Sanford Burnham Prebys in La Jolla, California, known for his research on caspases, the proteases that execute programmed cell death.

Guy Thwaites

Guy Thwaites is an English infectious diseases physician and Oxford professor who directed the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam from 2013 to 2026, researching tuberculosis.

Gwendalyn J. Randolph

Gwendalyn J. Randolph is an American immunologist at Washington University School of Medicine who studies how immune cells and lipoproteins leave tissues through lymphatic vessels.

Gwilym S. Lodwick

Gwilym S. Lodwick (1917–2011) was an American musculoskeletal radiologist who pioneered using computers to read radiological images and chaired radiology at the University of Missouri from 1955 to 1983.

Gwyneth Card

Gwyneth Card is an American neuroscientist, an HHMI Investigator since 2022, and chair of neuroscience at Columbia, known for studying how fruit flies select escape behaviors.