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Leonard J. Deftos
Leonard J. Deftos is an American endocrinologist and oncologist at the University of California, San Diego, known for establishing chromogranin A and calcitonin as blood markers of neuroendocrine tumors.
Leonard J. Foster
Leonard J. Foster is a Canadian biochemist who directs the Life Sciences Institute at the University of British Columbia, known for quantitative proteomics, organelle mapping, and honeybee disease research.
Leonard J. Prins
Leonard J. Prins (born 1974) is a Dutch supramolecular chemist and Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Padua, Italy, known for chiral hydrogen-bonded assemblies and chemically fueled self-assembly.
Leonard Jarett
Leonard Jarett was an American pathologist who researched insulin action and chaired pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania from 1980 to 1998.
Leonard K. Kaczmarek
Leonard K. Kaczmarek is a neuroscientist and ion-channel biologist, Professor of Pharmacology at Yale School of Medicine, whose laboratory cloned the Kv3.1b and Slack potassium channels.
Leonard Laster
Leonard Laster (1928–2020) was an American physician and biomedical researcher in gastroenterology and metabolic disease, known for celiac disease research and establishing the biochemical basis of alkaptonuria.
Leonard Lerman
Leonard Lerman (1925–2012) was an American molecular biologist who showed how acridine dyes intercalate into DNA and developed denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis for detecting single-base mutations.
Leonard P. Freedman
Leonard P. Freedman is a molecular biologist known for research on nuclear hormone receptors, chief science officer of the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research since 2018.
Leonard Petrucelli
Leonard Petrucelli is an American neuroscientist known for research on TDP-43 and the C9orf72 mutation in ALS and frontotemporal dementia, and founding director of the University of Miami's Neuroscience Institute.
Leonard Rogers
Sir Leonard Rogers (1868–1962) was a British parasitologist and tropical physician in the Indian Medical Service who introduced emetine for amoebic dysentery and antimony for kala-azar.
Leonard T. Kurland
Leonard T. Kurland (1921–2001) was an American physician and epidemiologist at the Mayo Clinic who founded neuroepidemiology and created the Rochester Epidemiology Project, a records-linkage system covering Olmsted County, Minnesota.
Leonardo Belluscio
Leonardo Belluscio is an American neuroscientist known for research on how the olfactory system forms and maintains its circuitry; he led a NINDS laboratory and joined HHMI in 2017.
Leonardo Bianchi
Leonardo Bianchi (1848–1927) was an Italian neurologist and psychiatrist who founded the Psychiatric Institute of Naples, established experimental research on the frontal lobes, and served as the first president of the Italian Society of Neurology.
Leonardo G. Cohen
Leonardo G. Cohen, also published as Leonardo Cohen, is a neurologist and Senior Investigator at NINDS, NIH, known for establishing non-invasive brain stimulation as a stroke rehabilitation strategy.
Leonardo M. Fabbri
Leonardo M. Fabbri is an Italian respiratory physician, Eminent Scholar at the University of Ferrara, who established COPD's inflammatory character and helped found the GOLD guidelines.
Leonhard Hess Stejneger
Leonhard Hess Stejneger was a Norwegian-born American ornithologist and herpetologist who spent more than 58 years at the Smithsonian, rising to head curator of biology.
Leonhard Koeppe
Leonhard Koeppe (1884–1969) was a German ophthalmologist born in Torgau who died in Halle, best known for his 1919 direct-view contact lens for examining the eye's drainage angle.
Leonid Kruglyak
Leonid Kruglyak is a human geneticist and genomicist at UCLA, chair of its Human Genetics department, known for genetic mapping methods and pioneering eQTL studies.
Leonid Margolis
Leonid Margolis (Леонид Марголис; born 1948) is a virologist and immunologist who developed ex vivo human lymphoid tissue systems for studying HIV pathogenesis at NIH, later joining Ilia State University.
Leonid Mirny
Leonid Mirny is a biological physicist and MIT professor who models 3D genome folding; his loop extrusion hypothesis, that molecular motors fold DNA, was confirmed experimentally.
Leonid Sazanov
Leonid A. Sazanov, born in 1960, is a British structural biologist at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria known for the first atomic structures of respiratory complex I.
Leonidas C. Platanias
Leonidas C. Platanias (Greek: Λεωνίδας Πλατανιάς) is a Greek-born physician-scientist who studies cytokine signaling in leukemia and has directed Northwestern's Lurie Cancer Center since 2014.
Leonore A. Herzenberg
Leonore A. Herzenberg, also published as L. A. Herzenberg, is an American immunologist and geneticist who co-led Stanford's Herzenberg Laboratory for over 50 years and helped develop FACS flow cytometry.
Leontine Alkema
Leontine Alkema is a Dutch biostatistician and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who develops Bayesian models used by UN agencies to estimate stillbirths and maternal mortality worldwide.
Leopold Freund
Leopold Freund was an Austrian radiologist who performed the first documented scientific therapeutic use of X-rays in Vienna in 1896, treating a girl's hairy birthmark and founding radiotherapy.
Leopold Schönbauer
Leopold Schönbauer (1888–1963) was an Austrian surgeon regarded as the founder of neurosurgery in Austria, director of Vienna General Hospital, and rector of the University of Vienna.
Leor S. Weinberger
Leor S. Weinberger is an American virologist and systems biologist at the Gladstone Institutes and UC San Francisco, known for the HIV latency circuit and single-dose TIP antivirals.
Leor Weinberger
Leor Weinberger is an American virologist at the Gladstone Institutes and UCSF who created therapeutic interfering particles, engineered viral parasites that spread like the virus they treat.
Leroy D. Vandam
Leroy D. Vandam (1914–2004) was an American anesthesiologist who led anesthesia at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital from 1954 to 1979 and published over 250 papers.
Leroy F. Liu
Leroy F. Liu (劉昉) is a molecular pharmacologist who established DNA topoisomerases as targets of antitumor drugs, working at Johns Hopkins, Rutgers, and Taipei Medical University.