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Lawrence R. Schiller

Lawrence R. Schiller is an American gastroenterologist in Dallas known for research on intestinal transport, chronic diarrhea, and motility, and was ACG president in 2011–2012.

Lawrence Rothfield

Lawrence I. Rothfield (1927–2022) was an American microbiologist and physician-scientist at the University of Connecticut Health Center known for defining how E. coli positions its division septum.

Lawrence S. Friedman

Lawrence S. Friedman is an American hepatologist and gastroenterologist who chairs the Department of Medicine at Newton-Wellesley Hospital and is a professor at Harvard Medical School.

Lawrence S.B. Goldstein

Lawrence S.B. Goldstein is an American cell biologist and neuroscientist at UC San Diego known for discovering kinesin motor proteins and linking defective axonal transport to Alzheimer's disease.

Lawrence Salkoff

Lawrence Salkoff is Professor of Neuroscience and Genetics at Washington University in St. Louis, known for his 1981 Nature work genetically identifying the Drosophila Shaker potassium channel gene.

Lawrence Shapiro

Lawrence Shapiro is a structural biologist, professor of biochemistry at Columbia University, known for structural work on cadherin cell adhesion, retinal protocadherins, and the endocytic receptor LRP2.

Lawrence Steinman

Lawrence Steinman is a neurologist at Stanford University whose multiple sclerosis research produced the approved therapy natalizumab, and who was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.

Lawrence T. Goodnough

Lawrence Tim Goodnough is an American hematologist and transfusion medicine specialist, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, known for defining Patient Blood Management and reducing blood use through restrictive transfusion practice.

Lawrence Weiskrantz

Lawrence Weiskrantz (1926–2018) was an American-born British neuropsychologist, professor of psychology at Oxford from 1967 to 1993, who discovered blindsight and showed the amygdala's role in emotional behavior.

Lawrence Zukerberg

Lawrence R. Zukerberg (1959–2022) was an American pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital whose work established cyclin D1 as a diagnostic marker of mantle cell lymphoma.

Lawrie W. Powell

Lawrie W. Powell (1934–2022) was an Australian hepatologist internationally recognized for his work on hemochromatosis, the iron-storage disorder, and called the Father of Australian Hepatology.

Le Kang

Le Kang (康乐) is a Chinese ecological genomicist and CAS Distinguished Professor at the Institute of Zoology in Beijing, known for three decades of work on locust genomes and swarming.

Leaf Huang

Leaf Huang, born in China in 1946, is a drug delivery and nanomedicine researcher who first published PEG's prolongation of liposome circulation time and pioneered non-viral gene vectors.

Leah E. Cowen

Leah E. Cowen is a Canadian researcher in fungal pathogenesis and antimicrobial resistance, Vice-President Research at the University of Toronto and co-founder of Bright Angel Therapeutics.

Leanne M. Williams

Leanne M. Williams is a Stanford psychiatrist and neuroscientist who founded its Center for Precision Mental Health and identified six brain-circuit biotypes of depression and anxiety.

Lecia V. Sequist

Lecia V. Sequist is an American medical oncologist and lung cancer researcher who is a professor at Harvard Medical School and practices at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Lee Goldman

Lee Goldman is an American cardiologist and Dean Emeritus at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, known for the Goldman Index, the Goldman Criteria, and the Coronary Heart Disease Policy Model.

Lee H. Schwamm

Lee H. Schwamm, also known as Lee Schwamm, is an American vascular neurologist and telehealth researcher known for building large-scale telestroke networks and national stroke quality-improvement programs.

Lee Ho-wang

Lee Ho-wang (Ho Wang Lee, 1928–2022) was a Korean physician and virologist who identified Hantaan virus as the cause of Korean hemorrhagic fever and developed a licensed vaccine.

Lee M. Eaton

Lee M. Eaton, born Lealdes McKendree Eaton (1905–1958), was an American Mayo Clinic neurologist who headed its neurology section and co-described Lambert–Eaton myasthenic syndrome with Edward H. Lambert in 1957.

Lee M. Ellis

Lee M. Ellis is an American surgical oncologist and cancer researcher at MD Anderson known for angiogenesis research in colorectal cancer and a 2012 Nature commentary on reproducibility.

Lee M. Kaplan

Lee M. Kaplan is an American physician-scientist in obesity medicine who founded Massachusetts General Hospital's Weight Center and was 2019–2020 president of The Obesity Society.

Lee M. Nadler

Lee M. Nadler, also known as Lee Nadler, is an American physician-scientist in cancer immunology at Dana-Farber and Harvard Medical School whose laboratory discovered CD19 and CD20, leading to Rituxan.

Lee M. Silver

Lee M. Silver, born 1952 in Philadelphia, is an American molecular biologist and geneticist, emeritus professor at Princeton, known for the mouse T/t complex and books on biotechnology.

Lee Niswander

Lee Niswander (Lee Ann Niswander) is an American developmental biologist known for research on limb development and neural tube closure, whose failure causes birth defects such as spina bifida.

Lee R. Berger

Lee R. Berger, known as Lee Berger, is an American-born South African paleoanthropologist at the University of the Witwatersrand who discovered Australopithecus sediba and led the Homo naledi excavation.

Lee S. Newman

Lee S. Newman is an American occupational and environmental medicine physician and distinguished professor at the University of Colorado, best known for developing the diagnostic test for chronic beryllium disease.

Lee S. Weinstein

Lee S. Weinstein, also known as Lee Weinstein, is an American physician-scientist at NIH's NIDDK known for work on G protein genetics, genomic imprinting, and metabolic disease.

Lee W. Jones

Lee W. Jones is a Canadian-born exercise oncology researcher who quantified how chemotherapy degrades fitness and ran randomized trials of prescribed exercise therapy at Duke and Memorial Sloan Kettering.

Lee Zou

Lee Zou is a molecular biologist who studies the DNA damage checkpoint, long at Harvard and Mass General, and chair of pharmacology and cancer biology at Duke since 2023.