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Nynke Dekker
Nynke Dekker, born 1971 in Amsterdam, is a biophysicist and Statutory Professor of Biophysics at Oxford, known for single-molecule studies of DNA replication and magnetic tweezers.
O. Carter Snead
O. Carter Snead is a Canadian pediatric neurologist who led neurology at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and created the GHB rat model of absence epilepsy.
O. Ross McIntyre
O. Ross McIntyre (O. R. McIntyre) is an American hematologist-oncologist and Emeritus Professor of Medicine at Dartmouth, director of Norris Cotton Cancer Center from 1975 to 1992.
Obaid Siddiqi
Obaid Siddiqi (1932–2013) was an Indian neurogeneticist whose Drosophila work helped found behavioral genetics; he built the Molecular Biology Unit at TIFR and NCBS, Bengaluru.
Octave Gengou
Octave Gengou (1875–1957) was a Belgian bacteriologist who co-discovered the whooping-cough bacillus with Jules Bordet in 1906 and developed the first pertussis vaccine in 1912.
Oded Abramsky
Oded Abramsky is an Israeli neurologist and neuroimmunologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for establishing neuroimmunology as a discipline and pioneering stem cell therapy trials in multiple sclerosis and ALS.
Oded Béjà
Oded Béjà is an Israeli microbiologist and professor at the Technion in Haifa whose metagenomics research discovered proteorhodopsin phototrophy in ocean bacteria, heliorhodopsins, and viral photosynthesis genes.
Oded Rechavi
Oded Rechavi is an Israeli biologist and Full Professor at Tel Aviv University who studies transgenerational inheritance of acquired traits through small RNA molecules in C. elegans.
Oded Shoseyov
Oded Shoseyov is an Israeli professor of protein engineering and nanobiotechnology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, scientific founder of CollPlant, which makes recombinant human collagen in tobacco plants.
Ofer Mandelboim
Ofer Mandelboim (עופר מנדלבוים) is an Israeli immunologist and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem known for research on natural killer cells and viral immune evasion.
Øjvind Winge
Øjvind Winge (1886–1964) was a Danish geneticist and mycologist, called the father of yeast genetics, who proved sexual reproduction in yeast while directing the Carlsberg Laboratory's physiology department from 1933 to 1956.
Okihide Hikosaka
Okihide Hikosaka is a Japanese neurophysiologist and Distinguished Investigator at the National Eye Institute, NIH, known for showing how the basal ganglia link reward to action.
Ola Landgren
C. Ola Landgren is a Swedish-trained hematologist-oncologist specializing in multiple myeloma who has led myeloma programs at the NCI, Memorial Sloan Kettering, and the University of Miami.
Olaf Blanke
Olaf Blanke (born 1969 in Minden, Germany) is a Swiss-based cognitive neuroscientist and neurologist known for experimentally inducing out-of-body experiences by brain stimulation and virtual reality.
Olaf Pongs
Olaf Pongs is a German molecular biologist known for the molecular biology of voltage-gated potassium channels, including cloned Shaker and rat brain channel genes and the 1994 Nature β-subunit paper.
Olaf Schneewind
Olaf Schneewind (1961–2019) was a German-born microbiologist and chair of microbiology at the University of Chicago, known for discovering sortase and studying Staphylococcus aureus, anthrax, and plague.
Olaf Sporns
Olaf Sporns is a German-born neuroscientist at Indiana University Bloomington who coined the term "human connectome" in 2005 and mapped the human brain's network structure.
Ole A. Andreassen
Ole A. Andreassen, often cited as Ole Andreassen, is a Norwegian psychiatrist and geneticist at the University of Oslo studying the genetics of severe mental disorders.
Ole Frithjof Norheim
Ole Frithjof Norheim is a Norwegian physician and medical ethicist who is a professor at the University of Bergen and Harvard, known for his research on health inequality.
Ole H. Petersen
Ole H. Petersen, born 1943, is a Danish-born physiologist at Cardiff University known for discovering intracellular calcium tunnels and defining calcium signaling failure in acute pancreatitis.
Ole Isacson
Ole Isacson is a physician and neuroscientist known for neural transplantation and stem-cell therapy research in Parkinson's disease. He directs the Neuroregeneration Research Institute at McLean Hospital and teaches neurology at Harvard Medical School.
Ole Kiehn
Ole Kiehn, born 1958, is a Danish–Swedish systems neuroscientist who studies the neural circuits that make mammals walk, run, and stop, and won the 2022 Brain Prize.
Ole Seehausen
Ole Seehausen is a Swiss-based evolutionary ecologist, professor at the University of Bern and Eawag researcher, known for studying how cichlid fishes in the African Great Lakes form new species.
Oleh Hornykiewicz
Oleh Hornykiewicz (1926–2020) was an Austrian pharmacologist who discovered dopamine deficiency in the brains of Parkinson's disease patients and initiated L-DOPA therapy, the foundation of dopamine replacement treatment, earning the Wolf Prize in 1979.
Olga Boudker
Olga Boudker is a structural biologist and HHMI Investigator at Weill Cornell Medicine, best known for establishing the elevator mechanism of glutamate transporters; she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.
Olga G. Troyanskaya
Olga G. Troyanskaya is a bioinformatics and genomics researcher, Maduraperuma/Khot Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, known for the HumanBase platform for predicting gene function and interactions.
Olga Imerslund
Olga Imerslund (1907–1987) was a Norwegian pediatrician at Rikshospitalet in Oslo whose 1960 report on ten children with hereditary selective vitamin B12 malabsorption established Imerslund–Gräsbeck syndrome.
Olga Kennard
Olga Kennard, née Weisz (1924–2023), was a British crystallographer who founded the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre and built the Cambridge Structural Database of over a million small-molecule structures.
Olive Watkins Smith
Olive Watkins Smith (1901–1983) was an American biochemist who directed the Fearing Research Laboratory in Boston and wrote the 1948 paper promoting DES in pregnancy.
Oliver A. Cornely
Oliver A. Cornely (Oliver Andreas Cornely) is a German infectious diseases physician-scientist at University Hospital Cologne who led the 2007 posaconazole prophylaxis trial and the 2019 global mucormycosis guideline.