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Lorenz von Seidlein

Lorenz von Seidlein is a malaria researcher and Professor of Global Health at Oxford who led trials of the first licensed malaria vaccine and the Star Homes housing trial in Tanzania.

Lorenzo Galluzzi

Lorenzo Galluzzi, born 1980, is a cell biologist and cancer researcher known for work on cell death, autophagy, and tumor immunology, and editor-in-chief of OncoImmunology.

Lorenzo Moretta

Lorenzo Moretta is an Italian immunologist known for discovering natural killer cell receptors, and head of the Department of Immunology at the Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù in Rome.

Loretta Ford

Loretta Ford, born Loretta Pfingstel, was an American nurse who co-founded the nurse practitioner role with Henry Silver at the University of Colorado in 1965.

Lori J Pierce

Lori J Pierce is an American radiation oncologist at the University of Michigan who studies breast cancer radiotherapy and served as president of ASCO in 2020-2021.

Lori J. Wirth

Lori J. Wirth is an American medical oncologist who leads the Center for Head and Neck Cancers at Massachusetts General Hospital and specializes in thyroid cancer.

Lori L. Isom

Lori L. Isom is a pharmacologist and chair of Pharmacology at the University of Michigan, known for cloning sodium channel β subunit genes and Dravet syndrome research.

Lori Passmore

Lori Passmore is a Canadian structural biologist and Royal Society Fellow who leads cryo-EM research on mRNA processing at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Lorna W. Role

Lorna W. Role is an American neuroscientist studying cholinergic signaling in memory circuits, who led NINDS intramural research as Scientific Director from 2019 to 2021.

Lorne Babiuk

Lorne Babiuk is a Canadian veterinary virologist who directed the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan from 1993 to 2007, developing vaccines that save the cattle industry hundreds of millions annually.

Lorraine B. Ware

Lorraine B. Ware is an American physician-scientist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center known for research on acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and sepsis, including her widely cited 2000 New England Journal of Medicine review.

Lorraine J. Gudas

Lorraine J. Gudas is an American pharmacologist who has chaired the pharmacology department at Weill Cornell Medicine since 1991, studying vitamin A derivatives called retinoids for cancer treatment and prevention.

Lorraine Pillus

Lorraine Pillus is a molecular biologist and Professor at UC San Diego, known for her 1989 Cell paper demonstrating epigenetic inheritance of transcriptional silencing in yeast.

Lorraine Symington

Lorraine Symington is a British-born yeast geneticist at Columbia University, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2024, known for work on DNA double-strand break repair.

Lorrin A. Riggs

Lorrin A. Riggs (1912–2008) was an American physiological psychologist and vision scientist who spent his 39-year career at Brown University studying visual perception and eye movements.

Lothar Hennighausen

Lothar Hennighausen is a molecular biologist at NIDDK, part of the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, known for work on mammary gland development, STAT5, and transgenic mouse technology.

Lothar Willmitzer

Lothar Willmitzer (born 1952) is a German plant physiologist and molecular biologist, founding director of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam-Golm.

Louis A. Matis

Louis A. Matis is an American immunologist and physician who worked at the National Cancer Institute, NIH, and FDA before leading discovery of the complement inhibitor eculizumab (Soliris) at Alexion.

Louis Adolphus Duhring

Louis Adolphus Duhring (1845–1913) was an American dermatologist in Philadelphia who founded Penn Dermatology, co-founded the American Dermatological Association in 1876, and gave his name to dermatitis herpetiformis, known as Duhring's disease.

Louis B. Flexner

Louis B. Flexner (1902–1996) was an American biochemist and pioneer of neurochemistry, best known for work on the biochemistry of memory with his wife Josefa.

Louis B. Thomas

Louis B. Thomas is an American pathologist who headed the Laboratory of Pathology at the National Cancer Institute and helped establish vinyl chloride as a cause of liver cancer.

Louis Bolk

Louis Bolk, born Lodewijk Bolk, was a Dutch anatomist and evolutionary theorist, professor of anatomy at Amsterdam, best known for his fetalization theory of human evolution.

Louis Duysens

Louis Nico Marie Duysens (1921–2015) was a Dutch biophysicist and professor at Leiden University whose 1952 thesis gave the first spectroscopic evidence for photosynthetic reaction centers and whose 1961 experiments proved the two-light-reaction scheme of photosynthesis.

Louis F. Reichardt

Louis F. Reichardt is an American neurobiologist who spent 37 years at UCSF studying nervous system development and directed the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative from 2013.

Louis Gallavardin

Louis Gallavardin (1875–1957) was a French physician and cardiologist of Lyon, among the first in Europe to devote himself entirely to cardiology, publishing about 360 papers.

Louis H. Miller

Louis H. Miller is an American NIH malaria researcher who showed the Duffy antigen is the receptor for Plasmodium vivax and defined var gene variation.

Louis Hamman

Louis Virgil Hamman (1877–1946) was an American physician at Johns Hopkins, regarded as a preeminent diagnostician, whose name is attached to Hamman's sign and the Hamman-Rich syndrome.

Louis J. Ignarro

Louis J. Ignarro, born 1941 in Brooklyn, is an American pharmacologist at UCLA who shared the 1998 Nobel Prize for identifying nitric oxide as the blood-vessel-relaxing signaling molecule.

Louis J. Muglia

Louis J. Muglia is an American physician-scientist in medical genetics and pediatrics, known for research on the genetics of preterm birth and a 2017 New England Journal of Medicine study.

Louis J. Picker

Louis J. Picker (Louis Picker) is an American immunologist and physician-scientist at OHSU known for memory T cell biology and a CMV-vectored HIV vaccine platform tested in macaques.