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Laurie Glimcher

Laurie H. Glimcher is an American immunologist who served as president and CEO of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute from 2016 to 2024, and previously was dean of Weill Cornell Medicine.

Laurie Goodyear

Laurie J. Goodyear is a metabolism researcher who heads Integrative Physiology and Metabolism at Joslin Diabetes Center and is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Laurie H. Sehn

Laurie H. Sehn is a Canadian medical oncologist and lymphoma researcher in Vancouver who developed the revised International Prognostic Index and led trials of new lymphoma treatments.

Laurie J. Morrison

Laurie J. Morrison is a Canadian emergency physician and resuscitation scientist at the University of Toronto and Sunnybrook, known for research on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and resuscitation guidelines.

Laurie L. Marker

Laurie L. Marker is a conservation biologist and cheetah specialist who co-founded the Cheetah Conservation Fund in Namibia in 1990, the first international organization focused on wild cheetah survival.

Laurinda A. Jaffe

Laurinda A. Jaffe is an American cell biologist who studies oocyte physiology and fertilization, and is Professor and Chair of Cell Biology at UConn Health, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

Lawren Sack

Lawren Sack is a plant ecophysiologist and professor at UCLA's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, known for research on leaf hydraulics, venation, and drought tolerance.

Lawrence A. Chasin

Lawrence A. Chasin is a molecular biologist and Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, known for work on mammalian cell genetics, gene amplification, and pre-mRNA splicing.

Lawrence A. Frohman

Lawrence A. Frohman (1935–2018) was an American neuroendocrinologist who defined hypothalamic control of growth hormone, isolated GHRH, and chaired medicine at the University of Illinois.

Lawrence A. Klobutcher

Lawrence A. Klobutcher is a molecular biologist at UConn Health who studies genome remodeling in ciliated protozoa, including DNA elimination and frameshifting in Oxytricha and Euplotes.

Lawrence A. Loeb

Lawrence A. Loeb is an American biochemist and pathologist at the University of Washington, known for the mutator phenotype hypothesis of cancer and for developing Duplex Sequencing.

Lawrence Bogorad

Lawrence Bogorad (1921–2003) was an American plant molecular biologist and Harvard professor, a pioneer of chloroplast genetics who sequenced the first chloroplast genes and mapped chloroplast DNA.

Lawrence C Katz

Lawrence C Katz (1956–2005) was an American neuroscientist, James B. Duke Professor at Duke University, known for developing optical imaging and photostimulation to map developing brain circuits.

Lawrence Chan

Lawrence Chan, born in Hong Kong in 1942, is a physician-scientist at Baylor College of Medicine known for a 2003 gene therapy that reversed diabetes in mice.

Lawrence Corey

Lawrence Corey is an American virologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center who founded the HIV Vaccine Trials Network and led the US COVID-19 vaccine trials.

Lawrence E. Samelson

Lawrence E. Samelson is an American immunologist who spent his career at the NIH, discovered the TCR zeta chain and LAT, and shared the 2019 William B. Coley Award.

Lawrence F. Brass

Lawrence F. Brass, known as Skip Brass, is an American hematologist and Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania since 1982, studying platelets, hemostasis, and thrombosis.

Lawrence Fong

Lawrence Fong is a physician-scientist in cancer immunotherapy who treats prostate, bladder, and kidney cancers and directs the Immunotherapy Integrated Research Center at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, after founding UCSF's Cancer Immunotherapy Program.

Lawrence G. Raisz

Lawrence G. Raisz was an American physician-scientist in bone and mineral metabolism, a founder of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research and first editor of its journal.

Lawrence H. Cohn

Lawrence H. Cohn (1937–2016) was an American cardiac surgeon and Harvard professor who led cardiac surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital and performed more than 11,000 operations.

Lawrence H. Einhorn

Lawrence H. Einhorn is an American medical oncologist at the Indiana University School of Medicine who developed the cisplatin-based chemotherapy regimens that made metastatic testicular cancer highly curable.

Lawrence J. Appel

Lawrence J. Appel is an American physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins University whose research on diet and behavior treats hypertension, kidney disease, and obesity; he led the landmark 1997 DASH trial.

Lawrence J. Kunz

Lawrence J. Kunz was an American clinical microbiologist who led Massachusetts General Hospital's clinical microbiology laboratory in Boston from 1952 to 1982, known for NEJM papers on Pasteurella and streptococcal infections.

Lawrence J. Marnett

Lawrence J. Marnett is an American pharmacologist and biochemist at Vanderbilt University whose research defined how normal metabolism damages DNA and how COX-2 is targeted by aspirin-like drugs.

Lawrence J. Stern

Lawrence J. Stern is an American immunologist and Professor of Pathology at UMass Chan Medical School, known for determining the structure of the human MHC protein HLA-DR1.

Lawrence Kazak

Lawrence Kazak is a Canadian researcher at McGill University's Goodman Cancer Institute who studies how fat cells generate heat, known for identifying a creatine-driven heat-producing pathway in thermogenic fat.

Lawrence Levine

Lawrence Levine (1924–2009) was an American biochemist and educator at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, best known for showing that anti-inflammatory corticosteroids inhibit prostaglandin production.

Lawrence M. Lichtenstein

Lawrence M. Lichtenstein (1934–2022) was an American immunologist and allergist at Johns Hopkins University whose 1978 trial made venom immunotherapy the standard of care for insect-sting allergy.

Lawrence M. Weiss

Lawrence M. Weiss, also published as Lawrence Weiss, is an American hematopathologist and Chairman of Pathology Emeritus at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California.

Lawrence O. Gostin

Lawrence O. Gostin, born 1949, is an American legal scholar at Georgetown University who founded the O'Neill Institute and shaped health law through major epidemics.