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Linheng Li

Linheng Li is a molecular biologist and Stowers Institute investigator in Kansas City known for identifying the mammalian blood stem cell niche and stem cell quiescence signals.

Lino Ferreira

Lino S. Ferreira is a Portuguese researcher in biomaterials, stem cells, and nanomedicine, leading the Advanced Therapies group at the University of Coimbra's Center for Neurosciences and Cell Biology.

Linzhao Cheng

Linzhao Cheng is a Chinese-American human stem cell biologist and genome-editing researcher, a tenured Johns Hopkins professor known for the first gene targeting in human iPS cells.

Lionel B. Ivashkiv

Lionel B. Ivashkiv is an American physician-scientist and rheumatologist who studies cytokine signaling and macrophage biology, and is Chief Scientific Officer at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York.

Lionel Christiaen

Lionel Christiaen is a French developmental systems biologist who directs the Michael Sars Centre at the University of Bergen, studying heart and muscle lineage development in the tunicate Ciona.

Lionel Fry

Lionel Fry (1933–2021) was a British dermatologist, consultant at St Mary's Hospital, London from 1969, who established dermatitis herpetiformis as gluten sensitivity and showed psoriasis is immune-mediated.

Lionel H. Opie

Lionel H. Opie (L. H. Opie) was a South African cardiologist at the University of Cape Town who showed how beta-blockers protect the heart during a heart attack.

Lionel Penrose

Lionel Sharples Penrose (1898–1972), British psychiatrist and geneticist, third Galton Professor at UCL, Colchester Survey researcher, opponent of eugenics, pioneer of medical genetics and Down syndrome maternal-age link.

Lionel Whitby

Sir Lionel Ernest Howard Whitby (1895–1956) was a British haematologist who identified sulphapyridine as effective against pneumonia and commanded the British Army's Blood Transfusion Service during World War II.

Lior Pachter

Lior Pachter is an American computational biologist, the Bren Professor of Computational Biology at Caltech since 2017, known for the RNA-seq software kallisto and Cufflinks.

Lipika Goyal

Lipika Goyal is an American medical oncologist who directs the Gastrointestinal Oncology program at the Stanford Cancer Institute, known for leading the 2023 futibatinib trial in bile duct cancer.

Liqun Luo

Liqun Luo (骆利群) is a Chinese-born neuroscientist at Stanford University who studies how neural circuits assemble their connections, known for developing the MARCM method for labeling single neurons in fruit flies.

Liran Carmel

Liran Carmel is an Israeli computational biologist and professor of genetics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who reconstructs DNA methylation maps from ancient DNA damage patterns.

Liron Bar-Peled

Liron Bar-Peled is a cancer biologist and associate professor at Harvard Medical School who leads a lab at Massachusetts General Hospital studying oxidative stress and covalent chemical proteomics.

Lisa A. Jackson

Lisa A. Jackson, also known as Lisa Jackson, is an American vaccine epidemiologist at Kaiser Permanente Washington who led the first COVID-19 vaccine trial in March 2020.

Lisa Ainsworth

Lisa Ainsworth, who publishes as Elizabeth Ainsworth, is an American plant physiologist studying crop responses to elevated CO2 and ozone at the USDA and University of Illinois.

Lisa Ann Newman

Lisa Ann Newman is an American breast surgical oncologist and health disparities researcher, Chief of the Section of Breast Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023.

Lisa Damour

Lisa Damour is an American clinical psychologist and author on adolescent development, known for the best sellers Untangled and Under Pressure and the Ask Lisa podcast.

Lisa Giocomo

Lisa M. Giocomo is a neuroscientist at Stanford University School of Medicine who studies grid cells in the entorhinal cortex and the brain's spatial navigation system.

Lisa Hope Harris

Lisa Hope Harris is an American physician-researcher at the University of Michigan who studies abortion-provider stigma and reproductive health policy, testified against Michigan's 1931 abortion ban in 2022, and is a National Academy of Medicine member.

Lisa Licitra

Lisa Licitra is an Italian medical oncologist who heads head and neck cancer medical oncology at Milan's Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori and led the BERIL-1 trial.

Lisa M. Coussens

Lisa M. Coussens is an American cancer biologist, chair of cell and cancer biology at Oregon Health & Science University, known for linking chronic inflammation to cancer progression.

Lisa M. DeAngelis

Lisa M. DeAngelis is an American neuro-oncologist who spent nearly 40 years at Memorial Sloan Kettering, chairing its neurology department and co-founding its Brain Tumor Center.

Lisa Monteggia

Lisa M. Monteggia is a neuroscientist studying the molecular mechanisms of depression and rapid-acting antidepressants, and she directs the Vanderbilt Brain Institute as Barlow Family Director.

Lisa Mosconi

Lisa Mosconi is an Italian-born neuroscientist at Weill Cornell Medicine who directs its Alzheimer's Prevention Program and studies women's brain health and menopause through brain imaging.

Lisa Soleymani Lehmann

Lisa Soleymani Lehmann, also published as Lisa S. Lehmann, is an American physician and bioethicist at Harvard Medical School who led ethics programs for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Lisa Stowers

Lisa Stowers (Lisa T. Stowers) is an American neuroscientist and Professor at Scripps Research who studies how the mouse brain detects pheromones driving social behavior.

Lisa V. Goodrich

Lisa V. Goodrich, also known as Lisa Goodrich, is a neuroscientist who studies how auditory circuits in the inner ear and brainstem assemble and fail.

Liusuo Zhang

Liusuo Zhang is a Chinese physiologist at the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Qingdao, known for cloning the C. elegans tmc-1 gene.

Liverij Osipovich Darkshevich

Liverij Osipovich Darkshevich (Ливерий Осипович Даркшевич, 1858–1925) was a Russian neurologist who identified the midbrain's nucleus of Darkshevich and founded the Kazan school of neurology.