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Oriol Pich
Oriol Pich (born 1992) is a Spanish computational biologist at the Francis Crick Institute known for first-author papers on mutational footprints of cancer therapies and tumor-infiltrating clonal hematopoiesis.
Orion D. Weiner
Orion D. Weiner is a cell biology professor at UCSF's Cardiovascular Research Institute who studies how cells control shape and movement, showing that membrane tension organizes cell polarity.
Örjan Gustafsson
Örjan Gustafsson, born 1968, is a Swedish biogeochemist and professor at Stockholm University known for the 2010 report of extensive methane venting from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf.
Orlando J. Miller
Orlando J. Miller was an American cytogeneticist who worked on human sex chromosome abnormalities and the H-Y antigen, later at Wayne State University in Detroit.
Ormond A. MacDougald
Ormond A. MacDougald is a physiologist studying adipose tissue biology at the University of Michigan, where he holds the John A. Faulkner Collegiate Chair of Physiology.
Orna Cohen-Fix
Orna Cohen-Fix is a cell biologist who leads the Laboratory of Biochemistry & Genetics at NIH's NIDDK, studying nuclear shape, size, and cell-cycle regulation, and received a 2000 PECASE award.
Orrin Devinsky
Orrin Devinsky is an American neurologist and epileptologist who directs the NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Center and led the trials behind the first FDA-approved cannabidiol epilepsy therapy.
Orson W. Moe
Orson W. Moe is a nephrologist and Professor of Internal Medicine and Physiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for kidney-stone research and Klotho studies in chronic kidney disease.
Orvar Swenson
Orvar Swenson (1909–2012) was a Swedish-born American pediatric surgeon who identified the cause of Hirschsprung's disease and devised its first effective operation, the Swenson pull-through procedure.
Osagie Obasogie
Osagie Obasogie is an American legal scholar and bioethicist, Haas Distinguished Chair and professor of law and bioethics at UC Berkeley, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2021.
Osamu Hayaishi
Osamu Hayaishi (早石 修, 1920–2015) was a Japanese biochemist, born in Stockton, California, who discovered the oxygenases and established prostaglandin D2 as a sleep-promoting substance in the brain.
Osamu Nureki
Osamu Nureki (濡木 理) is a Japanese structural biologist and University of Tokyo professor known for crystal structures of CRISPR-Cas9, Cpf1, and other RNA-guided nucleases.
Osamu Shimomura
Osamu Shimomura (下村脩) was a Japanese-born biochemist who discovered green fluorescent protein from jellyfish and shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, dying in 2018 at age 90.
Osamu Takeuchi
Osamu Takeuchi is a Japanese physician-scientist and professor of Medical Chemistry at Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, known for Toll-like receptor signaling and discovering Regnase-1, which degrades inflammatory messenger RNAs.
Oscar D. Ratnoff
Oscar D. Ratnoff (1916–2008) was an American hematologist and blood-clotting researcher who discovered the Hageman factor, now factor XII, and named the waterfall hypothesis of coagulation.
Oscar E. Suman
Oscar E. Suman is an American burn-injury researcher and professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch who received a 2015 Presidential Early Career Award.
Oscar Hertwig
Oscar Hertwig (1849–1922) was a German embryologist and cytologist who first recognized the fusion of sperm and egg nuclei as the essential event in fertilization.
Oscar L. Miller
Oscar Lee Miller Jr. is an American molecular biologist at Oak Ridge and the University of Virginia whose chromatin spreading method produced the "Christmas tree" micrographs of ribosomal RNA genes.
Óscar Llorca
Óscar Llorca is a Spanish structural biologist who uses cryo-electron microscopy to study macromolecular complexes involved in cancer, leading the Structural Biology Programme at CNIO in Madrid.
Oscar Marín
Óscar Marín (born 1971) is a Spanish neuroscientist who studies how cerebral cortex circuits are assembled, focusing on inhibitory interneurons, and directs the Centre for Developmental Neurobiology at King's College London.
Oscar Riddle
Oscar Riddle (1877–1968) was an American zoologist and endocrinologist who isolated and named prolactin, the pituitary hormone that stimulates milk production, and spent decades studying pigeons at Cold Spring Harbor.
Oscar Salvatierra
Oscar Salvatierra Jr. (1935–2019) was an American transplant surgeon, chief of the UCSF transplant program and later a Stanford professor, who pioneered pediatric kidney transplantation and helped draft the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984.
Osias Stutman
Osias Stutman was an immunologist who studied the thymus, T-cell development, and chemical carcinogenesis, first at Minnesota and later at Memorial Sloan Kettering; his 1974 nude-mouse experiments challenged the cancer immunosurveillance hypothesis.
Oskar Hansson
Oskar Hansson, born 1975, is a Swedish neurologist and professor of neurology at Lund University, known for the p-tau217 blood test for early Alzheimer's diagnosis.
Oskar Kohnstamm
Oskar Kohnstamm (1871–1917) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist who demonstrated the involuntary arm movement called the Kohnstamm phenomenon and ran a sanatorium at Königstein.
Oskar Langendorff
Oskar Langendorff (1853–1908) was a German physiologist who in 1895 introduced the Langendorff heart, a perfusion method for the isolated mammalian heart still used today.
Oskar Minkowski
Oskar Minkowski (1858–1931) was a German physician and internist who showed in 1889 that removing a dog's pancreas produces severe diabetes, the experimental starting point for the discovery of insulin.
Oskar Vogt
Oskar Vogt (1870–1959) was a German neurologist who, with his wife Cécile, built the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research in Berlin, mapped the cerebral cortex, and examined Lenin's brain.
Osvaldo Alfredo Reig
Osvaldo Alfredo Reig (1929–1992) was an Argentine mammalogist, paleontologist, and evolutionary biologist who described the dinosaur Herrerasaurus and theorized how South America's rodent fauna arrived.
Oswald Avery
Oswald Avery (1877–1955) was a Canadian-born American bacteriologist at the Rockefeller Institute who spent 35 years studying pneumococcus and whose 1944 paper identified DNA as the hereditary transforming substance.