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Louise Prakash

Louise Prakash is a molecular biologist and professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, known for discovering DNA polymerase eta's role in bypassing UV damage.

Louise Ryan

Louise Ryan is an Australian biostatistician, Distinguished Professor of Statistics at the University of Technology Sydney and adjunct professor at Harvard, known for statistical methods for cancer and environmental health research.

Louise T. Chow

Louise T. Chow (周芷) is a Taiwanese-American biochemist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham known for codiscovering RNA splicing in adenoviruses in 1977 and for her research on human papillomaviruses.

Love Dalén

Love Dalén is a Swedish evolutionary geneticist and professor at Stockholm University's Centre for Palaeogenetics who led the sequencing of the first complete woolly mammoth genome.

Lowell P. Hager

Lowell P. Hager (1926–2014) was an American enzymologist and protein chemist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1995.

Lowell S. Young

Lowell S. Young, also known as Lowell Sung-Yi Young, is an American infectious-disease physician and epidemiologist known for decades of mycobacterial disease research at the Kuzell Institute in San Francisco.

Lowell T. Coggeshall

Lowell T. Coggeshall, full name Lowell Thelwell Coggeshall (1901–1987), was an American physician who worked on tropical medicine and malaria and led the University of Chicago's biological sciences division.

Lu Qi (nutritional genetic epidemiologist)

Lu Qi (吕奇) is a nutritional genetic epidemiologist who leads the Tulane University Obesity Research Center and studies how genes and diet interact to shape obesity and diabetes risk.

Lubert Stryer

Lubert Stryer (1938-2024), American biochemist at Stanford, proved FRET as a spectroscopic ruler, discovered transducin amplification in vision, founded Affymax/Affymetrix science, and wrote the classic textbook Biochemistry (1975).

Lubertus Berrens

Lubertus Berrens (born 1933) is a Dutch biochemist and immunologist known for research on the chemical structure of atopic allergens, especially in house dust, winning the 1972 Robert Koch Prize.

Luc Brunsveld

Luc Brunsveld is a full professor of chemical biology at TU Eindhoven, a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy, and scientific co-founder of Ambagon Therapeutics, known for supramolecular chemistry applied to proteins.

Luc G.T. Morris

Luc G.T. Morris, often published as Luc Morris, is an American head and neck surgical oncologist and cancer immunogenomics researcher at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

Luc Montagnier

Luc Montagnier (Jean Luc Montagnier) was a French virologist who co-discovered HIV at the Pasteur Institute in 1983, winning a share of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Luc Perrin

Luc Perrin, who published as L. H. Perrin, was a Swiss physician-scientist in virology at Geneva known for early HIV diagnosis, a 1995 zidovudine trial, and a 2002 HIV superinfection report.

Luc Teyton

Luc Teyton is a French-trained physician-scientist and professor of immunology at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, who has studied the autoimmune destruction of beta cells in type 1 diabetes for over 25 years.

Luc Van Kaer

Luc Van Kaer is a Belgian-born immunologist at Vanderbilt University since 1993, known for TAP1 and H2-M mutant mouse studies of antigen presentation and NKT cell work.

Luca A. Lotta

Luca A. Lotta, also published as Luca Lotta, is an Italian-trained physician and genetic epidemiologist who studies obesity genetics and leads cardiometabolic disease genetics at Regeneron.

Luca Comai

Luca Comai is an Italian-born American plant geneticist at UC Davis who co-developed the TILLING mutation-discovery method and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.

Luca Gattinoni

Luca Gattinoni is an Italian immuno-oncologist known for identifying stem cell memory T cells, who spent 16 years at the US National Cancer Institute before leading the Leibniz Institute for Immunotherapy in Regensburg.

Luca Gianni

Luca Gianni, born in Milan in 1951, is an Italian medical oncologist whose NOAH and NeoSphere trials established neoadjuvant and dual-blockade HER2 therapy in breast cancer.

Luca Jovine

Luca Jovine is an Italian structural biologist and professor at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden who determines the structures of egg coat proteins to study fertilization, infertility, and non-hormonal contraception.

Luca Richeldi

Luca Richeldi, born 1963 in Modena, is an Italian pulmonologist who led the INPULSIS trials of nintedanib and is a professor of respiratory diseases at Università Cattolica in Rome.

Luca Scorrano

Luca Scorrano, born 1971 in Padua, is an Italian physician-scientist and Full Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Padua, known for work on OPA1 and mitochondrial cristae.

Luca Turin

Luca Turin, born 1953 in Lebanon to Italian parents, is a biophysicist best known for the vibrational theory of olfaction, and the subject of Chandler Burr's The Emperor of Scent.

Lucas Pelkmans

Lucas Pelkmans (born 1975) is a Dutch molecular cell biologist, a full professor at the University of Zurich known for work on endocytosis and cell-to-cell variability.

Lucas R. Massoth

Lucas R. Massoth is an American pathologist trained at Massachusetts General Hospital, known for New England Journal of Medicine case reports and genomic studies of rare histiocytic tumors.

Lucia B. Rothman‐Denes

Lucia B. Rothman-Denes is an Argentine-born molecular biologist at the University of Chicago, on the faculty since 1975, known for her studies of bacteriophage N4.

Lucia Banci

Lucia Banci, born 1954, is an Italian structural biologist at the University of Florence known for developing in-cell NMR to study proteins in living cells.

Lucian L. Leape

Lucian L. Leape (1930–2025) was an American pediatric surgeon and Harvard health policy professor regarded as the father of the modern patient safety movement, known for the Harvard Medical Practice Study.

Luciano Di Croce

Luciano Di Croce is an Italian cancer epigenetics researcher at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, known for work on Polycomb proteins in leukemia.