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Ichio Shimada

Ichio Shimada is a Japanese structural biologist who was a professor at the University of Tokyo and led a RIKEN laboratory, using NMR spectroscopy to study GPCRs and membrane proteins.

Ichiro Hirao

Ichiro Hirao (平尾一郎) is a Japanese synthetic biologist known for unnatural base pairs that expand the genetic alphabet; his group made the first transcribable artificial base pair in 2002.

Ichiro Yahara

Ichiro Yahara (矢原 一郎) is a Japanese cell biologist who studied lymphocyte receptor mobility at Rockefeller University and led stress protein research at Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science.

Ichizo Nishino

Ichizo Nishino is a Japanese neurologist and muscle disease researcher at the NCNP in Tokyo, known for identifying the causes of Danon disease and GNE myopathy.

Ick Chan Kwon

Ick Chan Kwon, born 1959 in Daegu, South Korea, is a drug delivery and nanomedicine scientist who spent his career as a principal research scientist at KIST.

Ida M. Martinson

Ida M. Martinson is an American nurse scientist known for founding research on home care for children dying of cancer and for cross-cultural studies of family caregiving in China.

Ida M. Onorato

Ida M. Onorato is an American physician-epidemiologist at the CDC's Division of Tuberculosis Elimination in Atlanta, known for 1990s research on tuberculosis among foreign-born persons.

Ida Sim

Ida Sim is an American physician and medical informatics researcher at UCSF, a co-founder of Vivli who was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022.

Ido Amit

Ido Amit is an Israeli immunologist at the Weizmann Institute who developed MARS-seq and related single-cell RNA sequencing technologies, applying them to immunity in cancer, autoimmunity, and neurodegeneration.

Ido Golding

Ido Golding is a biological physicist and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign known for measuring gene expression and viral infection inside individual bacterial cells.

Iekuni Ichikawa

Iekuni Ichikawa is a Japanese-born nephrologist and pediatric physician-scientist who trained at UCSF and Harvard and spent 1985 to 2015 at Vanderbilt University, where his research helped establish CAKUT as a disease entity.

Igal Szleifer

Igal Szleifer is an Argentina-born biomedical engineer who holds the Christina Enroth-Cugell chair at Northwestern University, known for molecular modeling of protein adsorption and chromatin.

Igho Ofotokun

Igho Ofotokun, also known as Ighovwerha Ofotokun, is an American physician-scientist in infectious diseases whose ACTG 5257 trial shaped US HIV treatment guidelines; he was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023.

Ignace Vergote

Ignace Vergote is a Belgian gynecologic oncologist at KU Leuven who led the EORTC 55971 ovarian cancer trial and the innovaTV 301 trial of tisotumab vedotin in cervical cancer.

Ignacio Melero

Ignacio Melero is a Spanish cancer immunologist, Professor of Immunology at the Universidad de Navarra, known for his research on the co-stimulatory molecule 4-1BB (CD137).

Ignacio Tinoco, Jr.

Ignacio Tinoco, Jr. (1930–2016) was an American chemist and biophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley, described as a founding father of molecular biophysics for pioneering RNA structure methods.

Igor Adameyko

Igor Adameyko (Игорь Адамейко) is a developmental biologist who is professor and department chair at the Medical University of Vienna and leads a group at Karolinska Institutet.

Igor B. Dawid

Igor B. Dawid (1935–2024) was an American molecular and developmental biologist at Carnegie and NIH known for showing that extra DNA in frog eggs is mitochondrial DNA.

Igor B. Roninson

Igor B. Roninson is a cancer researcher known for cloning the mdr1 multidrug resistance gene and discovering the first selective CDK8/19 inhibitors, retiring in 2026 as professor emeritus at the University of South Carolina.

Igor F. Palacios

Igor F. Palacios is a Venezuelan-born interventional cardiologist who led interventional cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and performed the first mitral balloon valvuloplasty in the United States.

Igor J. Koralnik

Igor J. Koralnik is a neurologist who is chief of Neuro-infectious Disease and Global Neurology at Northwestern University, known for discovering new JC virus brain diseases.

Igor Jurišica

Igor Jurišica is a Slovak-trained computational biologist and University of Toronto professor at the Krembil Research Institute who models protein-protein interaction networks and created the Integrated Interactions Database.

Igor L. Medintz

Igor L. Medintz is a Senior Scientist for Biosensors and Biomaterials at the US Naval Research Laboratory, known for quantum dot bioconjugates and FRET biosensing.

Igor Rudan

Igor Rudan is a Croatian physician-scientist, Professor of International Health and Molecular Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, known for the CHNRI method of setting health research priorities.

Igor Tamm

Igor Tamm (1922–1995) was an Estonian-born American virologist and cell biologist at The Rockefeller University who pioneered chemical inhibition of virus replication, using benzimidazole compounds such as DRB.

Igor Ulitsky

Igor Ulitsky is an Israeli molecular biologist and professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for showing that some long noncoding RNAs are functionally conserved across vertebrates.

Igor V. Grigoriev

Igor V. Grigoriev is a molecular biologist who leads the Fungal and Algal Program at the DOE Joint Genome Institute in Berkeley, known for sequencing fungal and algal genomes.

Ihor R. Lemischka

Ihor R. Lemischka (1953–2017) was an American stem cell biologist who proved a single hematopoietic stem cell can rebuild the blood system and led Mount Sinai's Black Family Stem Cell Institute.

Iichiro Shimomura

Iichiro Shimomura (下村 伊一郎) is a Japanese physician-scientist, professor of endocrinology and metabolism at The University of Osaka since 2004, whose department discovered the hormone adiponectin and helped establish the metabolic syndrome concept.

Ikuko Hara‐Nishimura

Ikuko Hara-Nishimura is a Japanese plant molecular biologist known for identifying VPE as an executor of plant programmed cell death and for discovering the peptide hormone Stomagen.