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Lary C. Walker
Lary C. Walker is a neuroscientist and neuropathologist at Emory University in Atlanta known for establishing that amyloid-beta, the protein of Alzheimer's plaques, spreads by prion-like seeding.
Lasse Lindahl
Lasse Lindahl is a molecular biologist who showed that ribosomal protein L4 represses its own synthesis in E. coli, and later studied yeast ribosome biogenesis at UMBC.
Laszlo Lorand
Laszlo Lorand (1923–2018) was a Hungarian-born American biochemist who co-discovered the blood-clotting protein Factor XIII, formerly called the Laki-Lorand factor, and spent more than 60 years at Northwestern University.
László Nagy (Hungarian physician-scientist)
László Nagy (Laszlo Nagy) is a Hungarian physician-scientist known for work on nuclear hormone receptors and macrophage epigenetics, including landmark 1998 Cell papers on PPARγ.
Làszlò Tora
Laszlo Tora is a Hungarian-born molecular biologist and CNRS research director who leads a group at the IGBMC in Strasbourg studying transcription initiation, the TFIID complex, and chromatin.
Lauder Brunton
Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton, first baronet (1844–1916), was a Scottish-born physician and pharmacologist who first reported amyl nitrite relieving angina pectoris in 1867 and wrote the first comprehensive pharmacology textbook.
Laura A. Johnston
Laura A. Johnston is an American molecular biologist at Columbia University known for showing that Myc controls organ size through cell competition in fruit flies.
Laura A. Koutsky
Laura A. Koutsky is an American epidemiologist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, known for HPV research and as principal investigator of the first HPV vaccine trials.
Laura A. Magee
Laura A. Magee is a Canadian-trained internist and Professor of Women's Health at King's College London, known for leading the CHIPS pregnancy blood pressure trial.
Laura A. Petersen
Laura A. Petersen is an American physician and health services researcher who leads the IQuESt center at Baylor College of Medicine and the DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston.
Laura D. Attardi
Laura D. Attardi is an American cancer geneticist at Stanford University who studies the p53 tumor suppressor and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Laura Dwyer‐Lindgren
Laura Dwyer-Lindgren is a health metrics researcher at the University of Washington's IHME who studies US disease burden and life expectancy disparities, known for the 2024 Ten Americas analysis.
Laura E. O'Dell
Laura E. O'Dell is an American behavioral neuroscientist and Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at El Paso who studies nicotine and alcohol addiction in vulnerable populations.
Laura F. Landweber
Laura F. Landweber, also published as Laura Landweber, is a molecular biologist at Columbia University who studies molecular evolution and RNA-mediated epigenetic inheritance in the single-celled ciliate Oxytricha trifallax.
Laura J. Esserman
Laura J. Esserman is an American surgeon and breast cancer researcher at UCSF who has directed its Breast Care Center since 1996 and leads the I-SPY 2 trial.
Laura L. Bellows
Laura L. Bellows is an American nutrition scientist who studies how eating habits and activity develop in early childhood, and received a Presidential Early Career Award in 2011.
Laura M. Dember
Laura M. Dember, also cited as Laura Dember, is an American nephrologist at the University of Pennsylvania known for clinical trials in AA amyloidosis and dialysis access.
Laura M. Gottlieb
Laura M. Gottlieb is an American family physician and researcher, Professor of Family and Community Medicine at UCSF, founding director of SIREN, and a 2019 National Academy of Medicine member.
Laura M. Machesky
Laura M. Machesky is an American-born cell biologist, known for the first description of the Arp2/3 complex, who became Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry at Cambridge in 2022.
Laura Mackay
Laura K. Mackay is an Australian immunologist known for her work on tissue-resident memory T cells, and is the inaugural Sir Gustav Nossal Professor of Immunology at WEHI.
Laura Manuelidis
Laura Manuelidis is an American physician and neuropathologist at Yale School of Medicine known for transmitting CJD to mice in 1978 and arguing the TSE agent is a virus.
Laura Marie Boykin
Laura Marie Boykin, also published as Laura Boykin Okalebo, is a computational biologist who uses genomics to help sub-Saharan African farmers control whiteflies devastating cassava.
Laura Mauri
Laura Mauri (L. Mauri) is an interventional cardiologist and clinical-trials researcher who led the DAPT Study and EVEREST II and is Medtronic's Chief Scientific and Medical Officer.
Laura P.W. Ranum
Laura P.W. Ranum is a neurogeneticist who directs the Center for NeuroGenetics at the University of Florida and identified mutations for SCA8, DM2, and SCA5.
Laura Pasqualucci
Laura Pasqualucci is an Italian cancer geneticist who identified KMT2D and CREBBP as tumor suppressors in B cell lymphomas, and directs a Lymphomagenesis Laboratory in Bellinzona, Switzerland.
Laura Prugh
Laura Prugh is an American wildlife ecologist and Professor of Quantitative Wildlife Sciences at the University of Washington, known for research on carnivore community ecology and predator-prey dynamics.
Lauren Bailey Zapata
Lauren B. Zapata is an American CDC epidemiologist in Atlanta who co-authors the U.S. MEC and SPR contraceptive guidance and received a 2011 PECASE award.
Lauren Cole Sallan
Lauren Cole Sallan is an American paleobiologist who studies how mass extinctions and ecological interactions shaped vertebrate diversity and body size, using fishes as her main model system.
Lauren Pile Knapp
Lauren Pile Knapp, also known as Lauren S. Pile Knapp, is a USDA Forest Service research forest ecologist in Columbia, Missouri, who received the 2025 PECASE award.
Lauren Rogers
Lauren A. Rogers is an American quantitative ecologist at NOAA's Alaska Fisheries Science Center who leads research on fish eggs and larvae, supporting ecosystem-based fisheries management in Alaska.