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Leroy Hood
Leroy Hood is an American biologist who developed the first automated fluorescent DNA sequencer at Caltech and co-founded the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle in 2000.
Leroy Shear
Leroy Shear was an American physician-scientist who studied ascites and kidney problems in liver cirrhosis, publishing influential papers in the New England Journal of Medicine between 1965 and 1970.
Leroy Stevens
Leroy Stevens (1920–2015) was an American developmental biologist at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, whose work on mouse teratomas laid the foundation for embryonic stem cells.
Leslee J. Shaw
Leslee J. Shaw is an American cardiac imaging researcher at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for work on ischemic heart disease and sex differences.
Lesley A. Inker
Lesley A. Inker is a Canadian-trained nephrologist and Professor of Medicine at Tufts University in Boston who directs CKD-EPI and led the 2021 race-free kidney function equations.
Lesley Seymour
Lesley Seymour is a Canadian medical oncologist who directs the Canadian Cancer Trials Group's Investigational New Drug Program in Kingston, Ontario, specializing in lung cancer.
Lesley Stewart
Lesley A. Stewart is a medical researcher and Professor of Evidence Synthesis at the University of York, known for pioneering individual participant data meta-analysis of clinical trials.
Leslie A. Grivell
Leslie A. Grivell, also published as L.A. Grivell, is a molecular biologist at the University of Amsterdam who studied yeast mitochondrial DNA and mitochondrial gene expression.
Leslie A. Leinwand
Leslie A. Leinwand is an American molecular biologist at the University of Colorado Boulder known for her 2011 discovery that python fatty acids drive heart growth.
Leslie Birgit Vosshall
Leslie Birgit Vosshall is an American molecular neurobiologist at Rockefeller University, an HHMI Investigator since 2008, known for discovering insect odorant receptors and how mosquitoes find humans.
Leslie Clarence Dunn
Leslie Clarence Dunn (1893–1974) was an American geneticist, professor of zoology at Columbia University from 1928 to 1962, known for the T-locus in mice and for fighting scientific racism.
Leslie E. Orgel
Leslie E. Orgel (1927–2007) was a London-born theoretical chemist who became a pioneer of the experimental study of life's origins, working chiefly at the Salk Institute in California.
Leslie G. Biesecker
Leslie G. Biesecker is an American clinical and molecular geneticist who leads precision health research at the NIH and delineated rare overgrowth syndromes like Proteus syndrome.
Leslie G. Ungerleider
Leslie G. Ungerleider was an American cognitive neuroscientist who led the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at NIMH and proposed the two-streams account of visual processing.
Leslie H. Blumgart
Leslie H. Blumgart (1931–2022) was a South African-born hepatobiliary surgeon who held the St Mungo professorship at Glasgow and built the hepatobiliary service at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York.
Leslie J. Berg
Leslie J. Berg is an American immunologist known for research on T cell receptor signaling and the kinase ITK, and chair of immunology at the University of Colorado since 2019.
Leslie J. De Groot
Leslie J. De Groot (1928–2018) was an American endocrinologist who led the University of Chicago's Thyroid Study Unit and was counted among the founders of modern thyroidology.
Leslie J. Schoenfield
Leslie J. Schoenfield (1932–2003) was an American gastroenterologist who pioneered the medical dissolution of gallstones, directing gastroenterology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from 1970 to 2001.
Leslie L. Iversen
Leslie Lars Iversen, known as Leslie Iversen, was a British neuropharmacologist (1937–2020) who advanced the study of neurotransmitters, led the MRC Neurochemical Pharmacology Unit and Merck neuroscience research, and became a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Leslie L. Robison
Leslie L. Robison is an American cancer epidemiologist who chaired the Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis and led the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.
Leslie M. Thompson
Leslie M. Thompson is an American neuroscientist at UC Irvine who helped identify the Huntington's disease gene in 1993 and now leads a stem cell therapy trial for it.
Leslie P. Weiner
Leslie P. Weiner, also cited as L. P. Weiner, is a retired American neurologist and virologist who identified the JC papovavirus as the cause of PML.
Leslie S. Ritter
Leslie S. Ritter is an American nurse scientist and stroke researcher, Professor Emerita at the University of Arizona and director of the Stroke Resource Center of Southern Arizona.
Leslie T. Cooper
Leslie T. Cooper is an American cardiologist who chairs cardiovascular medicine at Mayo Clinic in Florida and is known for defining the natural history and immunosuppressive treatment of myocarditis.
Leslie Wilson (cell biologist)
Leslie Wilson is an American cell biologist at UC Santa Barbara known for research on microtubule dynamics, including treadmilling, and how anticancer drugs act on them.
Lester Dragstedt
Lester Dragstedt (1893–1975) was an American surgeon and physiologist at the University of Chicago who reintroduced vagotomy as a treatment for duodenal ulcer in 1943.
Lester F. Lau
Lester F. Lau is an American molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois Chicago, known for immediate early gene discovery and CCN1 wound-healing research.
Lester J. Reed
Lester J. Reed (1925–2015) was an American biochemist at the University of Texas at Austin known for first isolating lipoic acid and for work on pyruvate dehydrogenase regulation.
Levi A. Garraway
Levi A. Garraway is an American oncologist and cancer genomicist who is Chief Medical Officer at Roche, co-founded Foundation Medicine, and pioneered high-throughput tumor genome profiling.
Levon M. Khachigian
Levon M. Khachigian is an Australian molecular biologist at UNSW Sydney known for targeting immediate-early genes in vascular disease and developing the DNAzyme drug Dz13.