Life and health scientists

Luı́s de Lecea

Luis de Lecea is a Spanish-trained neuroscientist, professor of psychiatry at Stanford, known for discovering the hypocretins in 1998 and optogenetic control of awakening in 2007.

Lukas C. Kühn

Lukas C. Kühn is a molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at EPFL in Lausanne who established the IRP/IRE system, the iron-dependent pathway controlling messenger RNA stability and translation.

Lukas E. Dow

Lukas E. Dow, also published as Lukas Dow, is an Australian-born molecular biologist studying colorectal cancer genetics at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York.

Lukas Kapitein

Lukas C. Kapitein, born 1978, is a Dutch biophysicist and professor at Utrecht University known for studying motor proteins and controlling organelle transport with light.

Lukas Sommer

Lukas Sommer is a professor of stem cell biology at the University of Zurich's Institute of Anatomy, known for research on neural crest stem cells, melanoma, and skin wound healing.

Łukasz Łuczaj

Łukasz Łuczaj (Łukasz Jakub Łuczaj), born 1972, is a Polish botanist at the University of Rzeszów known for ethnobotanical research on wild edible plants in Europe and Asia.

Luke A. Gilbert

Luke A. Gilbert is an American molecular biologist, an Associate Professor of Urology at UCSF and Arc Institute investigator, known for developing CRISPRi and CRISPRa gene-control methods.

Luke Alphey

Luke Alphey is a geneticist holding the Chair in Genetics at the University of York, known for pioneering engineered sterile-male mosquitoes for genetic pest control.

Luke J. Chang is a computational social affective neuroscientist and associate professor at Dartmouth College who directs its Computational Social Affective Neuroscience Laboratory and received the 2025 PECASE award.

Luke D. Lavis

Luke D. Lavis, also known as Luke Lavis, is an American chemist at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus who develops fluorescent dyes for biological imaging, including the Janelia Fluor dyes.

Luke O'Neill (immunologist)

Luke O'Neill is an Irish immunologist who holds the Chair of Biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin, known for work on Toll-like receptors, inflammasomes, and immunometabolism.

Luke T Coddington

Luke T Coddington is a neuroscientist at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus who studies how midbrain dopamine guides learning and action, arguing it sets the rate animals learn behavioral policies.

Lukoye Atwoli

Lukoye Atwoli is a Kenyan psychiatrist and professor at The Aga Khan University, known for research on trauma and PTSD and membership of the US National Academy of Medicine.

Lutz Birnbaumer

Lutz Birnbaumer, born in Vienna in 1939, is an Argentine-American biochemist and National Academy of Sciences member who helped discover G protein signaling and the TRPC channel family.

Lutz Gissmann

Lutz Gissmann is a German virologist who isolated HPV16 and HPV18, the main causes of cervical cancer, and developed the virus-like-particle method behind all HPV vaccines.

Lyal Watson

Lyal Watson (1927–2015) was an Australian-born physician and endocrinologist who spent his career at University College Hospital, London, devising the hydrocortisone suppression test for diagnosing hypercalcaemia.

Lyder Borthen

Lyder Borthen, full name Lyder Must Borthen (1849–1924), was a Norwegian ophthalmologist in Trondheim whose leprosy eye research earned a 1900 Paris gold medal and three Nobel nominations.

Lydia Finley

Lydia Finley is an American cancer biologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who studies how metabolism controls cell fate in stem and cancer cells.

Lyle R. Petersen

Lyle R. Petersen is an American physician and infectious disease epidemiologist who directs the CDC's Division of Vector-Borne Diseases and led its 2016 Zika response.

Lyn Finelli

Lyn Finelli is an American CDC epidemiologist who co-authored New England Journal of Medicine studies of 2009 H1N1 influenza and childhood pneumonia, and led FluSurv-NET surveillance.

Lyn M. Duncan

Lyn M. Duncan is an American dermatopathologist who joined Massachusetts General Hospital in 1991, helped discover the melanoma biomarker Melastatin, and directed Harvard's dermatopathology training program.

Lynda Chin

Lynda Chin is an American cancer genomic scientist and board-certified dermatologist known for leadership in The Cancer Genome Atlas, melanoma genomics, and founding MD Anderson's Department of Genomic Medicine.

Lyndon Emsley

Lyndon Emsley is a solid-state NMR spectroscopist and professor of physical chemistry at EPFL, where he has led the Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance since 2014, developing NMR crystallography methods.

Lynn C. Hartmann

Lynn C. Hartmann is an American medical oncologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for studies of risk-reducing surgery in hereditary breast cancer.

Lynn Cooley

Lynn Cooley is an American molecular geneticist at Yale who studies how germline cells form connected clusters in fruit flies, and has been dean of its Graduate School since 2014.

Lynn J. Bennion

Lynn J. Bennion is an American researcher at the NIH whose 1970s studies showed that oral contraceptives, obesity, and puberty make human bile prone to cholesterol gallstones.

Lynn J. Rothschild

Lynn J. Rothschild is an astrobiologist and synthetic biologist at NASA's Ames Research Center since 1987, known for research on the limits of life and synthetic biology for space.

Lynn M. Corcoran

Lynn M. Corcoran is an Australian immunologist at WEHI in Melbourne, known for 1980s research establishing the MYC oncogene as the driver of Burkitt's lymphoma.

Lynn M. Matrisian

Lynn M. Matrisian is an American cancer biologist known for her work on matrix metalloproteinases in tumor growth, founding Vanderbilt's Department of Cancer Biology, and later leading research at PanCAN.