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Lloyd A. Greene

Lloyd A. Greene is an American neurobiologist and Columbia University professor emeritus who, with Arthur Tischler, established the PC12 cell line for studying nerve growth factor.

Lloyd J. Old

Lloyd J. Old (1933–2011) was an American cancer immunologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering in New York, known for co-discovering tumor necrosis factor and co-identifying p53, called the Father of Modern Tumor Immunology.

Lloyd M. Aiello

Lloyd M. Aiello was an American ophthalmologist, Harvard Medical School professor, and founding director of the Beetham Eye Institute who pioneered laser photocoagulation for diabetic retinopathy.

Lloyd M. Beidler

Lloyd M. Beidler (1922–2003) was an American neuroscientist who founded modern taste research at Florida State University, proposed the Beidler equation, and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1974.

Lloyd M. Smith

Lloyd M. Smith, born 1954 in Berkeley, California, is an American chemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for developing the first fluorescence-based automated DNA sequencer and proteomics software.

Lloyd Mayer

Lloyd F. Mayer (1952–2013) was an American clinical immunologist and gastroenterologist at Mount Sinai in New York, known for showing that T cells regulate immunoglobulin class switching in B cells.

Lloyd Peck

Lloyd Peck is a British marine biologist and Science Leader at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2024.

Lloyd W. Law

Lloyd W. Law (1910–2002) was an American immunologist and cancer researcher at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, whose mouse leukemia studies laid the foundation for combination chemotherapy.

Lluís Quintana‐Murci

Lluís Quintana-Murci, born 1970 in Palma de Mallorca, is a Spanish-born French population geneticist who leads the Human Evolutionary Genetics unit at the Institut Pasteur.

Lluı́s Ribas de Pouplana

Lluís Ribas de Pouplana is a Catalan molecular biologist who studies transfer RNA and the genetic code, heading the Gene Translation Laboratory at IRB Barcelona since 2003.

Loïc Pellissier

Loïc Pellissier, born 1984, is a Swiss ecologist and full professor at ETH Zurich who heads the Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems and models how landscape change shapes biodiversity.

Lois B. Travis

Lois B. Travis is a physician and cancer epidemiologist at the Indiana University Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center, known for research on second cancers in testicular cancer survivors.

Lois K. Lee

Lois K. Lee is a pediatric emergency medicine physician-researcher at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023 for firearm-injury research.

Lois K. Miller

Lois K. Miller (1945–1999) was an American geneticist at the University of Georgia who developed baculoviruses, insect viruses, as gene expression vectors and engineered biopesticides, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1997.

Lon R. Cardon

Lon R. Cardon is a human geneticist and president and CEO of The Jackson Laboratory since 2021, known for co-founding the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium.

Long Cai

Long Cai (蔡龙) is a biologist at Caltech who develops imaging methods for single cells, known for seqFISH and for MEMOIR, which records molecular events into cell genomes.

Lonnie Ingram

Lonnie Ingram (1947–2020) was an American microbiologist and metabolic engineer at the University of Florida who engineered E. coli to produce ethanol for biofuels and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2001.

Lora K. Heisler

Lora K. Heisler is a neuroscientist who studies the brain circuits that regulate appetite and metabolism, holding a Chair in Nutritional Neuroscience at the University of Aberdeen's Rowett Institute in Scotland.

Lora V. Hooper

Lora V. Hooper, also known as Lora Hooper, is an American immunologist who studies how gut bacteria interact with the immune system at UT Southwestern.

Lorande Loss Woodruff

Lorande Loss Woodruff (1879–1947) was an American protozoologist at Yale University who studied inheritance and senescence in ciliates, maintaining pedigreed Paramecium aurelia cultures through more than 5,000 generations without conjugation.

Lord Boyd Orr

Lord Boyd Orr, born John Boyd Orr, was a Scottish nutrition scientist who directed the Rowett Institute, led the FAO, and won the 1949 Nobel Peace Prize.

Lord Todd

Lord Todd, also known as Alexander Todd, was a Scottish biochemist who won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes.

Loren Dean Williams

Loren Dean Williams is a biochemist and professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology known for the iron(II) RNA cofactor hypothesis and an accretion model of ribosome evolution.

Loren G. Miller

Loren G. Miller is an American infectious-diseases physician-researcher, Professor of Medicine at UCLA and Chief of Adult Infectious Diseases at Harbor-UCLA, known for MRSA decolonization trials.

Loren J. Field

Loren J. Field is an American molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Indiana University School of Medicine, known for research on regenerative growth of the heart.

Loren L Looger

Loren L. Looger is an American protein engineer and neuroscientist, an HHMI Investigator and professor at UC San Diego known for engineering the widely used GCaMP calcium indicators.

Loren Laine

Loren Laine is an American gastroenterologist, professor of medicine and chief of digestive diseases at Yale School of Medicine, and 2012–2013 president of the American Gastroenterological Association.

Loren M. Frank

Loren M. Frank is an American systems and computational neuroscientist, Professor of Physiology at UCSF and an HHMI Investigator since 2015, known for research on hippocampal memory.

Loren Rieseberg

Loren Rieseberg is a Canadian plant evolutionary biologist at the University of British Columbia known for showing that new plant species can arise through hybridization.

Lorenz Studer

Lorenz Studer is a Swiss-trained stem cell biologist who directs the Center for Stem Cell Biology at Memorial Sloan Kettering and works on Parkinson's cell therapy.