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Ismar Isidor Boas

Ismar Isidor Boas (1858–1938) was a German physician called the father of gastroenterology; in Berlin he opened the first specialty clinic for digestive diseases in 1886 and founded the field's first journal in 1895.

Israel Charo

Israel F. Charo is an American immunologist, professor emeritus at UCSF's Cardiovascular Research Institute, known for CCR2 research, a 1998 Nature atherosclerosis study, and a 2006 NEJM review.

Israel Kleiner (biochemist)

Israel Simon Kleiner (1885–1966) was an American biochemist at the Rockefeller Institute who first demonstrated that pancreatic extracts lower blood sugar in diabetic dogs, before insulin was purified in 1921.

Israel Pecht

Israel Pecht (Hebrew: ישראל פכט), born 1937, is an Israeli chemical immunologist and Professor Emeritus at the Weizmann Institute, known for mast-cell signaling research and leading FEBS and IUPAB.

Israël Vlodavsky

Israel Vlodavsky, born 1944 in Haifa, is an Israeli cancer and vascular biology researcher, professor emeritus at the Technion, best known for cloning heparanase and showing it drives cancer metastasis.

Issam Raad

Issam I. Raad is an infectious-disease physician-scientist who chairs and teaches at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, best known for antibiotic-coated central venous catheters the CDC recommends for patients at high risk of bloodstream infections.

Issei Komuro

Issei Komuro is a Japanese cardiologist and physician-scientist, a project professor at the University of Tokyo, known for research on molecular mechanisms of heart failure and cardiac aging.

István Apáthy

István Apáthy (1863–1922) was a Hungarian zoologist and histologist who demonstrated neurofibrils in leech nerve cells, lost the continuity-doctrine controversy with Cajal, and built a leading microtechnique center at Kolozsvár.

István Módy

István Módy is a UCLA neuroscientist, Distinguished Professor of Neurology and Physiology who directs UCLA's Center for the Study of Parkinson's Disease, known for research on tonic inhibition, GABAA receptors, epilepsy, and post-stroke recovery.

István Rusznyák

István Rusznyák (1889–1974) was a Hungarian physician and internal-medicine specialist who co-discovered vitamin P with Albert Szent-Györgyi and served as president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Iswar K. Hariharan

Iswar K. Hariharan is a molecular biologist and physician at UC Berkeley, best known for work that helped define the Hippo signaling pathway, which controls organ size.

Itai Yanai

Itai Yanai is an Israeli-born computational biologist, a professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine since 2016, known for CEL-Seq single-cell sequencing and cancer cell states.

Itamar Raz

Itamar Raz is an Israeli endocrinologist and professor at Hebrew University–Hadassah who heads the Israel National Diabetes Council and co-led the SAVOR-TIMI 53 saxagliptin trial.

Itamar Willner

Itamar Willner, born 1947 in Romania, is an Israeli chemist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem known for DNA nanotechnology, biomolecular electronics, and supramolecular chemistry.

Itaru Hamachi

Itaru Hamachi (浜地 格) is a Japanese chemical biologist, a professor at Kyoto University, known for chemical probes that label and image proteins inside living cells.

Itay Tirosh

Itay Tirosh is an Israeli computational biologist who leads a Tumor Systems Biology lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for applying single-cell RNA sequencing to human tumors.

Itzhak Fried

Itzhak Fried is a neurosurgeon and cognitive neuroscientist who has directed UCLA's Epilepsy Surgery Program since 1992 and records single neurons in awake human patients.

Iva Greenwald

Iva Greenwald is an American developmental biologist at Columbia University known for discovering the LIN-12/Notch signaling pathway in C. elegans, work honored with the 2025 Canada Gairdner International Award.

Ivan Ahel

Ivan Ahel is a Croatian-born biochemist at the University of Oxford who studies DNA repair and ADP-ribosylation and holds the E.P. Abraham Chair of Chemical Pathology.

Ivan Đikić

Ivan Đikić, born 1966 in Zagreb, is a Croatian molecular biologist who directs the Institute of Biochemistry II at Goethe University Frankfurt and studies ubiquitin signaling and selective autophagy.

Ivan E. de Araújo

Ivan E. de Araújo is a Brazilian-born neuroscientist who studies how gut signals shape appetite, reward, and mood, directing the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics since 2023.

Iván Izquierdo

Iván Izquierdo (1937–2021) was an Argentine-born Brazilian neurobiologist who spent five decades working out the mechanisms of memory formation, retrieval, and extinction at PUCRS in Porto Alegre.

Ivan Janssens

Ivan A. Janssens is a Belgian ecosystem ecologist and biogeochemist, a full research professor in the PLECO group at the University of Antwerp who studies the terrestrial carbon cycle.

Ivan Marazzi

Ivan Marazzi is a molecular biologist, Professor of Biological Chemistry at UC Irvine, known for showing that topoisomerase 1 inhibitors suppress lethal SARS-CoV-2 inflammation in animal models.

Ivan Matić

Ivan Matić is a molecular geneticist in Paris who studies bacterial genetic variation through mismatch repair and stress-induced mutagenesis, leading a CNRS laboratory at Institut Cochin since 2019.

Ivan Pavlov (Иван Петрович Павлов)

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (Иван Петрович Павлов, 1849–1936), Russian physiologist, first physiologist Nobel laureate (1904, digestion), discoverer of the conditioned reflex and classical conditioning, basis of behaviorism.

Ivan Sechenov

Ivan Mikhailovich Sechenov (Иван Михайлович Сеченов) was a Russian physiologist, revered as the father of Russian physiology, who demonstrated central inhibition in the brain in 1862.

Iván Soltész

Ivan Soltesz is a neuroscientist studying the cellular and circuit mechanisms of epilepsy, and the James R. Doty Professor of Neurosurgery and Neurosciences at Stanford.

Ivan Stamenkovic

Ivan Stamenkovic is a Swiss-based pathologist and cancer researcher, professor at CHUV and the University of Lausanne, known for identifying CD44 as the principal receptor for hyaluronate and for Ewing sarcoma research.

Ivan Zanoni

Ivan Zanoni is an immunologist who became Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School in 2026, known for innate immune signaling and type III interferon research.