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Lewis A. Chodosh
Lewis A. Chodosh is an American physician-scientist and breast cancer researcher who chairs the Department of Cancer Biology at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine.
Lewis B. Holmes
Lewis B. Holmes is an American pediatrician and dysmorphologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for birth-defects surveillance and directing the North American AED Pregnancy Registry.
Lewis C. Becker
Lewis C. Becker is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist, a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine who co-founded the GeneSTAR family heart study in 1982 and led research on platelet genetics.
Lewis C. Cantley
Lewis C. Cantley, born 1949, is an American biochemist known for discovering PI3K, a signaling enzyme central to cancer and diabetes, and for cancer metabolism research.
Lewis Dexter
Lewis Dexter (1910–1995) was an American cardiologist at Harvard Medical School and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital who first catheterized the pulmonary artery, in 1944, defining hemodynamics of congenital heart disease.
Lewis E. Braverman
Lewis E. Braverman (1929–2019) was an American endocrinologist and thyroid researcher at Boston University School of Medicine who demonstrated in 1970 that thyroxine is converted to triiodothyronine in humans.
Lewis J. Rubin
Lewis J. Rubin is an American pulmonologist and Emeritus Professor at UC San Diego whose trials brought prostacyclin therapy, first epoprostenol, into routine use for pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Lewis K. Dahl
Lewis K. Dahl was an American internist and hypertension researcher at Brookhaven National Laboratory who demonstrated that dietary salt raises blood pressure and that susceptibility depends on genetic background.
Lewis Kay
Lewis E. Kay is a Canadian molecular biophysicist at the University of Toronto and the Hospital for Sick Children who develops NMR methods for studying protein structure and dynamics.
Lewis L. Lanier
Lewis L. Lanier is an American immunologist known for seminal work on natural killer cells and a longtime professor at the University of California, San Francisco.
Lewis Landsberg
Lewis Landsberg (1938–2021) was an American physician-scientist in endocrinology and metabolism whose research showed that diet regulates the sympathetic nervous system, linking obesity to high blood pressure.
Lewis P. Rowland
Lewis P. Rowland (1925–2017) was an American neurologist who chaired neurology at Columbia University for 25 years, edited Merritt's Textbook of Neurology, and led ALS research and clinical trials.
Lewis Ralph Jones
Lewis Ralph Jones (1864–1945) was an American plant pathologist who founded plant pathology at the University of Wisconsin and first led the American Phytopathological Society.
Lewis Stadler
Lewis Stadler (1896–1954) was an American maize geneticist at the University of Missouri and USDA geneticist, a pioneer of X-ray-induced mutation in plants and a National Academy of Sciences member.
Lewis T. Williams
Lewis T. ("Rusty") Williams is an American physician-scientist, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator from 1983 to 1993, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Lewis Terman
Lewis Terman (1877–1956) was an American psychologist at Stanford University who revised the Binet intelligence test into the Stanford–Binet and led the Genetic Studies of Genius, a longitudinal study of 1,528 gifted children begun in 1921.
Lewis Thomas
Lewis Thomas (1913–1993) was an American physician, immunologist, and essayist who led the NYU and Yale medical schools and wrote The Lives of a Cell.
Lewis Tilney
Lewis Tilney is an American cell biologist at the University of Pennsylvania known for his studies of the cytoskeleton, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1998.
Lewis W. Wannamaker
Lewis W. Wannamaker (1923–1983) was an American physician-scientist who showed that prompt penicillin treatment of streptococcal infections prevents rheumatic fever, work honored with the 1954 Lasker Award.
Lewis Wolpert
Lewis Wolpert (1929–2021) was a South African-born British developmental biologist who formulated positional information, a model for how embryonic cells learn their location and build the body plan.
Li Ding
Li Ding, also known as Ding Li, is a Chinese American computational biologist and cancer genomicist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Li Gan
Li Gan is a neuroscientist directing the Helen and Robert Appel Alzheimer's Disease Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine since 2018, known for work on tau acetylation.
Li Jiayang
Li Jiayang (李家洋), born in 1956, is a Chinese plant molecular geneticist known for rice plant architecture research and molecular design breeding, and a former Vice Minister of Agriculture.
Li Ma
Li Ma is a cancer researcher and professor of experimental radiation oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center, known for showing that a single microRNA, miR-10b, can initiate breast cancer invasion and metastasis.
Li Zhang
Li Zhang, professionally Li I. Zhang, is a systems neuroscientist and professor at the University of Southern California who studies how neural circuits generate perception and behavior.
Li-Huei Tsai
Li-Huei Tsai (蔡立慧) is a Taiwanese-born American neuroscientist, Picower Professor at MIT, known for CDK5, the epigenetics of memory loss, and 40 Hz gamma stimulation for Alzheimer's.
Li-Meng Yan (闫丽梦)
Li-Meng Yan (闫丽梦), Chinese virologist and former University of Hong Kong postdoctoral fellow whose 2020 Zenodo preprints claiming SARS-CoV-2 was lab-engineered were rated misleading by MIT Press and Johns Hopkins reviewers.
Lia Addadi
Lia Addadi, born 1950, is an Israeli structural chemist at the Weizmann Institute of Science known for her research on biomineralization, how organisms form and control minerals.
Liam Dolan
Liam Dolan FRS is an Irish plant scientist who studies how plant roots evolved, and was Sherardian Professor of Botany at Oxford from 2009 to 2020.
Liam Smeeth
Liam Smeeth is a British clinical epidemiologist who became Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in 2021 and practises as an NHS GP.