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Laurence A. Boxer

Laurence A. Boxer (1940–2017) was an American pediatric hematologist and oncologist at the University of Michigan whose research defined modern knowledge of neutrophil biology and phagocyte disorders.

Laurence A. Harker

Laurence A. Harker (1932–2020) was a Canadian-born American hematologist and physician-scientist who worked on platelet function and thrombosis, best known for his 1972 NEJM study standardizing the template bleeding time.

Laurence A. Turka

Laurence A. Turka is an American transplant immunologist and physician-scientist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital whose laboratory first showed that blocking CD28 signals prevents allograft rejection.

Laurence B. Ellis

Laurence B. Ellis was an American cardiologist at Boston City Hospital and Harvard Medical School who directed the follow-up of the closed mitral valvuloplasty series from 1948 to 1973.

Laurence D. Hurst

Laurence D. Hurst is a British evolutionary geneticist, Professor of Evolutionary Genetics at the University of Bath since 1997 and founding Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution.

Laurence de Leval

Laurence de Leval, born 1970, is a Belgian hematopathologist and professor at the University of Lausanne, known for identifying the follicular helper T-cell origin of angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma.

Laurence H. Hurley

Laurence H. Hurley (born 1944) is an English-born medicinal chemist known for designing cancer drugs targeting DNA, especially G-quadruplexes, and is professor emeritus at the University of Arizona.

Laurence H. Kedes

Laurence H. Kedes, known as Larry, was an American molecular biologist who cloned the first protein-coding gene from an animal cell and founded USC's Institute for Genetic Medicine.

Laurence H. Kyle

Laurence H. Kyle was an American endocrinologist at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., known for studies of thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal disease and body composition.

Laurence H. Pearl

Laurence H. Pearl is a British structural biologist, Professor at the University of Sussex, known for solving the Hsp90 chaperone structure and Hsp90 cancer inhibitors.

Laurence H. Tecott

Laurence H. Tecott is an American neuroscientist and psychiatrist, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, known for linking serotonin receptor subtypes to appetite, obesity, and anxiety.

Laurence J. Miller

Laurence J. Miller is an American gastroenterologist and molecular pharmacologist at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, known for work on cholecystokinin and secretin receptors, including a 2020 cryo-EM structure of secretin bound to its receptor.

Laurence Jay Korn

Laurence Jay Korn is a molecular biologist known for his work on Xenopus 5S ribosomal RNA gene transcription at Stanford University and for founding the biotech company Protein Design Labs.

Laurence L. Robbins

Laurence L. Robbins was an American radiologist who led Massachusetts General Hospital's radiology department from 1946, taught at Harvard, and presided over the Radiological Society of North America in 1959.

Laurence O. Trussell

Laurence Trussell is a neuroscientist and professor at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, known for his 2001 Nature work on presynaptic glycine receptors in the auditory brainstem.

Laurence Zitvogel

Laurence Zitvogel is a French clinical oncologist and immunologist, professor at Université Paris-Saclay, known for immunogenic cell death and how gut microbiota shape cancer immunotherapy response.

Laurens Gerhard Marinus Baas Becking

Laurens Gerhard Marinus Baas Becking (1895–1963) was a Dutch botanist and microbiologist known for the dictum "everything is everywhere, but the environment selects" and for articulating geobiology.

Laurent Abel

Laurent Abel is a French physician-scientist at Inserm who heads the Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases in Paris and New York, identifying genetic causes of severe tuberculosis and COVID-19.

Laurent Brochard

Laurent Brochard, born 1957, is a French-Canadian intensivist and researcher whose work on mechanical ventilation and ARDS shaped intensive care, including a landmark 1995 NEJM trial of noninvasive ventilation.

Laurent Castéra

Laurent Castéra is a French hepatologist, professor of hepatology at Université Paris Cité and Hôpital Beaujon in Clichy, who led EASL and pioneered noninvasive liver fibrosis testing.

Laurent Excoffier

Laurent Excoffier is a Swiss population geneticist and professor emeritus at the University of Bern, known for the Arlequin software and genomic studies of how humans settled Europe.

Laurent Keller

Laurent Keller, born 1961, is a Swiss evolutionary biologist and University of Lausanne professor known for discovering the fire ant social chromosome, a supergene controlling colony organization.

Laurent Nguyen

Laurent Nguyen is a Belgian neurobiologist at the University of Liège who studies how the cerebral cortex is built, leading the Laboratory of Molecular Regulation of Neurogenesis.

Laurent Papazian

Laurent Papazian (born 1959) is a French intensivist known for the 2010 ACURASYS trial of neuromuscular blockade in ARDS; after nearly 40 years in Marseille, he works in Bastia, Corsica.

Laurent Peyrin‐Biroulet

Laurent Peyrin-Biroulet is a French professor of gastroenterology at Nancy University Hospital who served as President of the European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation from 2020 to 2023.

Lauri A. Aaltonen

Lauri A. Aaltonen is a Finnish physician-scientist, Professor of Tumor Genomics at the University of Helsinki, known for establishing the molecular basis of hereditary colorectal cancer.

Lauri E. Markowitz

Lauri E. Markowitz is an American physician and epidemiologist who joined the CDC in 1983, studied measles outbreaks, and led HPV vaccine surveillance showing large infection declines.

Lauri Saxén

Lauri Saxén (1927–2005) was a Finnish developmental biologist and professor of experimental pathology at the University of Helsinki, known for work on embryonic induction and kidney organogenesis.

Laurie A. Boyer

Laurie A. Boyer is Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering at MIT who studies cardiac cell fate, first-authoring the 2005 embryonic stem cell circuitry paper and discovering Braveheart.

Laurie E. Comstock

Laurie E. Comstock is a microbiologist and Professor of Microbiology at the University of Chicago who studies Bacteroidales, the most abundant Gram-negative bacteria of the human intestine.