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Lian Pin Koh
Lian Pin Koh is a conservation scientist who cofounded ConservationDrones.org in 2011 and is Dean of Science and Chief Sustainability Scientist at the National University of Singapore.
Liane Russell
Liane Russell (1923–2019) was an Austrian-born American mammalian geneticist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who discovered the Y chromosome's role in maleness and the single-active-X rule.
Liang Tong
Liang Tong (童亮) is a protein crystallographer and William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor at Columbia University, known for crystal structures of metabolic enzymes and RNA-processing machinery.
Liangyou Rui
Liangyou Rui is a molecular physiologist at the University of Michigan Medical School known for research on SH2B1 and NIK signaling in obesity, diabetes, and fatty liver disease.
Liangyu Zhang
Liangyu Zhang is a cell biologist who studies chromosome dynamics during cell division, known for adapting the auxin-inducible degradation (AID) system for protein depletion in the nematode C. elegans.
Libbie Henrietta Hyman
Libbie Henrietta Hyman (1888–1969) was an American zoologist, the most influential comparative invertebrate zoologist of the twentieth century, known for the six-volume treatise The Invertebrates and for working unpaid at the American Museum of Natural History.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858–1954) was an American horticulturist and botanist at Cornell University, known as the Father of American Horticulture and coiner of the term "cultivar."
Libo Shan
Libo Shan (单立波) is a plant immunologist and professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, known for work on how plant receptor kinases and NLR immune receptors are activated.
Lida P. Hariri
Lida P. Hariri is an American pulmonary pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who develops endobronchial optical coherence tomography for imaging lung disease.
Lieping Chen
Lieping Chen (陈列平) is a Yale immunologist whose laboratory discovered PD-L1 (B7-H1) in 1999 and showed the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway lets tumors evade immune attack, founding cancer immunotherapy.
Lieven De Veylder
Lieven De Veylder is a Belgian plant biologist at Ghent University and VIB who studies how plants control cell division and replenish root stem cells.
Lihong Wang
Lihong V. Wang is a Chinese-American biomedical optics researcher who developed photoacoustic tomography and compressed ultrafast photography, and has been a Bren Professor at Caltech since 2017.
Liisa Holm
Liisa Holm, also known as Sirkka-Liisa Holm, is a computational biologist and professor at the University of Helsinki, known for the Dali protein structure comparison method.
Lijun Liu
Lijun Liu is a structural biologist and protein crystallographer at the University of Kansas, known for studies of ligand binding and water in T4 lysozyme cavities.
Lila Davachi
Lila Davachi is a cognitive neuroscientist who studies how the brain encodes and retrieves episodic memory, and joined Yale University as Professor of Psychology in July 2026.
Lila M. Gierasch
Lila M. Gierasch is an American biophysical chemist known for her work on protein folding in the living cell and molecular chaperones, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.
Lila R. Gleitman
Lila R. Gleitman (1929–2021) was an American psychologist and linguist at the University of Pennsylvania who showed how children learn word meanings, proposing syntactic bootstrapping.
Lili Yang
Lili Yang is an immunologist and professor of microbiology, immunology, and molecular genetics at UCLA who trained under David Baltimore at Caltech and develops off-the-shelf CAR-NKT cell cancer immunotherapies from engineered blood stem cells.
Liliana Attisano
Liliana Attisano is a biochemist at the University of Toronto known for defining how cells receive signals through TGFβ and activin receptors and for her work on Smad2.
Liliana Ossowski
Liliana Ossowski is a cancer researcher and Professor Emeritus at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for studies of tumor invasion, metastasis, and dormancy.
Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi
Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi is an American computational neuroscientist at Stony Brook University who applies control theory to brain imaging and won a 2010 PECASE award.
Liling Wan
Liling Wan is a cancer epigenetics researcher and Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for identifying the chromatin reader ENL as required for acute myeloid leukemia.
Lillian Siu
Lillian L. Siu is a Canadian medical oncologist at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and the University of Toronto, known for early-phase anticancer drug trials and cancer genomics.
Lilly Bourguignon
Lilly Y. W. Bourguignon is a cancer biologist and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, known for her work on hyaluronan–CD44 signaling in cancer.
Lily Jan
Lily Jan, also known as Lily Yeh Jan, is an American molecular neuroscientist at UCSF whose lab cloned the first potassium channel gene in 1987.
Lin He
Lin He (何琳) is a Chinese-American molecular biologist at UC Berkeley who showed that a microRNA cluster can act as an oncogene and won a 2009 MacArthur Fellowship.
Lin Mei
Lin Mei (梅林) is a Chinese-born neuroscientist who studies synapse formation, known for identifying LRP4 as the receptor for agrin and for myasthenia gravis biomarkers.
Lin Tian
Lin Tian is a neuroscientist known for engineering genetically encoded fluorescent sensors of brain activity, including GCaMP, dLight, and psychLight, and has led the Max Planck Florida Institute since 2023.
Lin-Fa Wang
Lin-Fa Wang (王林发) is a Singapore-based virologist at Duke-NUS Medical School known for identifying bats as the SARS virus's natural host and for bat immunology research.
Lina M. Obeid
Lina M. Obeid (Lina Marie Obeid) was an American physician-scientist who showed that ceramide triggers programmed cell death, opening the field of sphingolipid signaling in cancer.