Life and health scientists

Ludwig Heilmeyer

Ludwig Heilmeyer (1899–1969) was a German internist and hematologist who directed the University of Freiburg Medical Clinic from 1946 to 1967 and became founding rector of the University of Ulm.

Ludwig Kappos

Ludwig Kappos is a Swiss neurologist and emeritus professor at the University of Basel who led pivotal trials of most approved multiple sclerosis therapies and helped set diagnostic criteria.

Ludwig Pick

Ludwig Pick (1868–1944) was a German Jewish pathologist at Berlin's Friedrichshain hospital who delineated Niemann-Pick disease and was deported to Theresienstadt, dying there in 1944.

Ludwig von Bertalanffy

Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901–1972) was an Austrian theoretical biologist and philosopher, known as the father of general system theory, whose growth equation still dominates fisheries science.

Ludwik Gross (1904–1999) was a Polish-born American virologist who, working at the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital, showed that leukemia in mammals is transmitted by a virus and won the 1974 Lasker Award.

Ludwik Hirszfeld

Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884–1954) was a Polish physician and immunologist who demonstrated with Emil von Dungern that blood groups are inherited, established the ABO nomenclature, and survived the Warsaw Ghetto.

Luella Klein

Luella Klein, also Luella Klein-Colquitt, was an American obstetrician-gynecologist who became the first woman president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in 1984.

Luigi Bartalena

Luigi Bartalena is an Italian physician-scientist in endocrinology, Emeritus Professor at the University of Insubria in Varese, known for randomized trials of Graves' hyperthyroidism treatment and its eye complications.

Luigi D. Notarangelo

Luigi D. Notarangelo, also known as Luigi Daniele Notarangelo, is an Italian-born immunologist who studies the genetic causes of primary immune deficiencies at the NIH.

Luigi Ferrucci

Luigi Ferrucci is an Italian geriatrician and epidemiologist, Scientific Director of the National Institute on Aging's intramural research program since 2011, studying physical and cognitive decline in older people.

Luigi Fontana

Luigi Fontana is an Italian physician and biogerontologist who studies how diet, fasting, and exercise slow aging, holding a chair at the University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Centre since 2018.

Luigi Gorini

Luigi Gorini (1903–1976) was an Italian-born molecular biologist and Harvard Medical School professor who showed that the ribosome determines how faithfully the genetic code is read.

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (1922–2018), Italian population geneticist at Stanford, founder of human population genetics and genetic geography; with Edwards built the first human evolutionary tree (1963), co-founded cultural evolution with Feldman, led the HGDP, and wrote The History and Geography of Human Genes (1994).

Luigi Luciani

Luigi Luciani (1840–1919) was an Italian physiologist and neurologist, professor at Rome, who defined the cerebellar triad of atonia, asthenia, and astasia and studied heart rhythm and fasting.

Luigi Naldini

Luigi Naldini, born in Turin in 1959, is an Italian physician-scientist whose HIV-derived lentiviral vectors underpin modern ex vivo gene therapy, including the approved medicines Strimvelis and Libmeldy.

Luigi Pagliaro

Luigi Pagliaro (1931–2020) was an Italian hepatologist, Emeritus Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Palermo, known as the father of Italian hepatology and for defining the prognostic stages of cirrhosis.

Luigi Tavazzi

Luigi Tavazzi, born in Cremona, Italy in 1939, is an Italian cardiologist known for the heart-failure trials CARE-HF and SHIFT and for heading cardiology at Policlinico San Matteo in Pavia.

Luigina Romani

Luigina Romani is an Italian immunologist known for the concept of protective tolerance in infection and for tryptophan co-metabolism therapies, including thymosin α1 for cystic fibrosis.

Luis Alberto Diaz Jr.

Luis Alberto Diaz Jr. is an American medical oncologist who heads Solid Tumor Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering, known for circulating tumor DNA biomarkers and the first tissue-agnostic FDA approval.

Luis B. Barreiro

Luis Barreiro is a human population geneticist and immunogeneticist, Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago, known for work linking genetic ancestry and past natural selection to immune response differences.

Luis Barraquer Roviralta

Luis Barraquer Roviralta (Lluís Barraquer i Roviralta, 1855–1928) was a Spanish physician considered the founder of neurology in Catalonia, known for Barraquer-Simons syndrome and Barraquer's reflex.

Luis Enjuanes

Luis Enjuanes is a Spanish virologist who heads the Coronavirus Laboratory at CNB-CSIC in Madrid, known for the first infectious coronavirus cDNA clone and vaccine candidates.

Luis Esquivies

Luis Esquivies is a structural biologist and molecular physiologist, a research specialist at HHMI in Stanford, California, since 2017, known for synaptic vesicle structure and peptide inhibitors of membrane fusion.

Luis F. Parada

Luis F. Parada is an American biologist who directs the Brain Tumor Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and builds mouse models of glioma.

Luis Herrera-Estrella

Luis Rafael Herrera-Estrella is a Mexican plant molecular biologist who pioneered the first transgenic plants at Ghent University and now works at Texas Tech University and Cinvestav.

Luis M. Chiappe

Luis M. Chiappe is an Argentine paleontologist who studies the origin and early evolution of birds and leads research at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

Luis Paz‐Ares

Luis Paz-Ares is a Spanish medical oncologist specializing in thoracic cancers, who heads medical oncology at Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre in Madrid and the joint H12O-CNIO lung cancer research unit.

Luis Rosero-Bixby

Luis Rosero-Bixby is a Costa Rican demographer and epidemiologist who led the CRELES longevity study and was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2013.

Luis Sequeira

Luis Sequeira is a Costa Rican-born plant pathologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1980 and known for research on bacterial wilt and induced resistance.