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Larry J. Young

Larry J. Young (1967–2024) was an American social neuroscientist at Emory University, known for prairie vole research showing how oxytocin and vasopressin regulate social bonding.

Larry Kedes

Larry Kedes, born Laurence H. Kedes, was an American molecular geneticist who isolated the first protein-coding gene from an animal cell and helped found GenBank.

Larry M. Baddour

Larry M. Baddour is an American infectious-diseases physician, professor emeritus of medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for research on infective endocarditis and device infections.

Larry Norton

Larry Norton is an American medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, known for the Norton–Simon model of tumor growth, dose-dense chemotherapy, and HER2-directed breast cancer therapy.

Larry R. Jones

Larry R. Jones, also cited as L. R. Jones, is an American cardiac molecular biologist and physician-scientist, Charles Fisch Professor Emeritus of Cardiology at the Indiana University School of Medicine.

Larry R. Rohrschneider

Larry R. Rohrschneider was an American cell biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle who showed that Src and other oncoproteins act at cell adhesion sites.

Larry R. Squire

Larry R. Squire, born 1941 in Iowa, is an American cognitive neuroscientist at UC San Diego who studies how memory is organized in the brain, including declarative memory.

Larry Simpson

Larry Simpson is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UCLA who discovered guide RNAs and worked out uridine insertion and deletion RNA editing in trypanosome mitochondria.

Larry Stein

Larry Stein (1931–2019) was an American behavioral pharmacologist known for the catecholamine hypothesis of reinforcement and the first behavioral demonstrations of enkephalins' analgesic and rewarding effects.

Larry W. Kwak

Larry W. Kwak is an American hematologist-oncologist and cancer vaccine researcher who developed one of the first personalized therapeutic cancer vaccines, for B-cell lymphoma, and was named to the TIME 100 in 2010.

Larry W. McLaughlin

Larry W. McLaughlin (1950–2023) was an American chemist who studied nucleic acid chemistry, first at the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen, then for 34 years at Boston College.

Lars Å. Hanson

Lars Å. Hanson, born Lars-Åke Hanson (1934–2022), was a Swedish pediatrician and immunologist at Gothenburg who reported IgA in breast milk and showed breastfeeding protects infants against infection.

Lars Bertram

Lars Bertram is a German physician-scientist who studies Alzheimer's disease genetics, known for the AlzGene database and a professor of genome analytics at the University of Lübeck.

Lars Björck

Lars Björck is a Swedish infection-medicine researcher and professor at Lund University, known for the IgG-degrading enzyme IdeS and the bacterial proteins protein G and protein L.

Lars Chıttka

Lars Chittka is a German zoologist and professor at Queen Mary University of London, known for research showing bees can learn, count, and may have emotions.

Lars Ernster

Lars Ernster (Ernster László; 1920, Budapest – 1998, Stockholm) was a Hungarian-born Swedish biochemist who made Stockholm University a leading center of mitochondrial bioenergetics and served on the Nobel Committee for Chemistry.

Lars Fugger

Lars Fugger, born in 1960, is a Danish physician-scientist and Professor of Neuroimmunology at Oxford, known for a humanized transgenic mouse model of multiple sclerosis.

Lars Holmberg

Lars Holmberg is a Swedish cancer epidemiologist and oncology researcher, Professor Emeritus at King's College London and Uppsala University, best known for the SPCG-4 trial of prostatectomy versus watchful waiting.

Lars Klareskog

Lars Klareskog, born 1945, is a Swedish rheumatology researcher at Karolinska Institutet who showed how smoking and HLA-DR genes trigger immunity to citrullinated proteins in rheumatoid arthritis, and led the 2004 TEMPO trial.

Lars Køber

Lars Køber is a Danish cardiologist, Clinical Professor at the University of Copenhagen and based at Rigshospitalet, known for leading the landmark heart failure trials TRACE and DANISH.

Lars Lindholm

Lars Lindholm, also known as Lars H Lindholm, is a Swedish hypertension researcher and professor of general practice at Umeå University whose 2005 meta-analysis questioned beta blockers.

Lars O. Hedin

Lars O. Hedin, also published as Lars Hedin, is an ecosystem ecologist and biogeochemist at Princeton University known for showing that intact tropical forests naturally leak nitrogen.

Lars Sjöström

Lars Sjöström is a Swedish physician-scientist, professor emeritus at the Sahlgrenska Academy in Gothenburg, who founded the Swedish Obese Subjects (SOS) study in 1987, the first long-term controlled trial of bariatric surgery.

Lars Søndergaard

Lars Søndergaard is a Danish interventional cardiologist and professor of cardiology at the University of Copenhagen who heads structural heart intervention at Rigshospitalet and led the NOTION and REDUCE trials.

Lars Steinmetz

Lars M. Steinmetz is a geneticist who leads research groups at EMBL Heidelberg and Stanford, where he is Professor of Genetics and Co-Director of the Stanford Genome Technology Center.

Lars Terenius

Lars Terenius is a Swedish pharmacologist who in 1973 was among the first to demonstrate opiate receptors in the brain, winning the 1978 Canada Gairdner International Award.

Lars Wallentin

Lars Wallentin is a Swedish cardiologist and professor emeritus at Uppsala University who led pivotal trials of antiplatelet and anticoagulant drugs, including PLATO and ARISTOTLE, and built the SWEDEHEART registry.

Lars Wilhelmsen

Lars Wilhelmsen (L. Wilhelmsen) was a Swedish cardiologist and epidemiologist at Sahlgrenska University Hospital who co-started the Men born in 1913 study and directed the Göteborg Multifactor Primary Prevention Trial.

Lars Zender

Lars Zender (born 1975 in Hanover) is a German medical oncologist at University Hospital Tübingen known for in vivo RNAi screens in living mouse livers and for first-in-class MKK4 inhibitor drugs.

Lars‐Oliver Essen

Lars-Oliver Essen is a German structural biologist who has been professor of structural biochemistry at Philipps-Universität Marburg since 2001, known for crystal structures of DNA photolyases and microbial photoreceptors.