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Otto Westphal
Otto Westphal (1913–2004) was a German chemist and immunologist who established the chemistry of bacterial endotoxins and developed the hot phenol–water method for purifying lipopolysaccharide.
Ottoline Leyser
Ottoline Leyser is a British plant biologist at Cambridge who studies auxin and shoot branching and led UK Research and Innovation from 2020 to 2025.
Owe Orwar
Owe Orwar (born 1964) is a molecular biophysicist at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, known for lipid nanotube-vesicle networks, artificial cells, and single-cell patch-clamp analysis.
Owen Epstein
Owen Epstein is a South African–trained gastroenterologist and professor at the Royal Free Hospital in London, known for primary biliary cirrhosis research and one of Europe's most active capsule endoscopy services.
Owen Harding Wangensteen
Owen Harding Wangensteen (1898–1981) was an American surgeon who chaired surgery at the University of Minnesota from 1930 to 1967 and invented the Wangensteen suction tube for intestinal obstruction.
Owen N. Witte
Owen N. Witte is an American cancer biologist at UCLA who showed that BCR-ABL drives leukemia, co-discovered BTK, and laid the groundwork for Gleevec and ibrutinib.
Owen Sansom
Owen Sansom is a British cancer biologist known for research on Wnt signaling and APC in colorectal cancer, and director of the Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute.
Owsei Temkin
Owsei Temkin (1902–2002) was an American historian of medicine who directed the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins and wrote The Falling Sickness, a history of epilepsy.
Oye Gureje
Oye Gureje, full name Oyewusi Gureje, is a Nigerian psychiatrist and psychiatric epidemiologist, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Ibadan, who led the Ibadan Study of Ageing.
P. Andrew Futreal
P. Andrew Futreal, also known as Andrew Futreal, is a cancer geneticist known for identifying the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes and BRAF mutations in melanoma.
P. Andrew Karplus
P. Andrew Karplus is a biochemist and biophysicist at Oregon State University, now retired, best known for a 2012 Science paper that changed how crystallographers judge data quality.
P. Anthony Weil
P. Anthony Weil is a molecular biologist at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine known for research on transcriptional regulation, including the 1989 cloning of the yeast TFIID gene.
P. Anton van der Merwe
P. Anton van der Merwe, fully Philip Anton van der Merwe, is a South African-trained immunologist and Professor of Molecular Immunology at the University of Oxford.
P. David Rogers
P. David Rogers is an American clinical pharmacist and pharmacologist who chairs the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.
P. Dee Boersma
P. Dee Boersma is an American conservation biologist who has studied penguins for over five decades, directing the Penguin Project and teaching at the University of Washington.
P. Frederick Sparling
P. Frederick Sparling, born in 1936, is an American physician-scientist at UNC Chapel Hill known for research on gonorrhea and syphilis, including pilus antigenic variation.
P. Helena Mäkelä
P. Helena Mäkelä, born Pirjo Helena Mäkelä (1930–2011), was a Finnish microbiologist at the National Public Health Institute whose field trials established Hib conjugate vaccines for infants.
P. James B. Dyck
P. James B. Dyck is an American neurologist and Professor emeritus at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, whose research centers on peripheral neuropathy, diabetic neuropathy, and Guillain-Barre syndrome.
P. Jeffrey Conn
P. Jeffrey (Jeff) Conn is an American neuropharmacologist, emeritus professor at Vanderbilt University, who founded its Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery and pioneered allosteric modulators for brain disorders.
P. Leif Bergsagel
P. Leif Bergsagel (Peter Leif Bergsagel) is a Canadian-trained hematologist-oncologist at Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona, who identified recurrent chromosome translocations and NF-κB mutations in multiple myeloma.
P. Leslie Dutton
P. Leslie Dutton, also known as P. L. Dutton, is a British-born American biochemist at the University of Pennsylvania known for biological electron transfer research.
P. Reed Larsen
P. Reed Larsen (Philip Reed Larsen) is an American thyroid endocrinologist who leads the Thyroid Section at Brigham and Women's Hospital and is a Harvard Medical School professor.
P. Robin Hiesinger
P. Robin Hiesinger, full name Peter Robin Hiesinger, is a German neurobiologist at Freie Universität Berlin who studies how the fruit fly brain wires itself.
P. Roy Vagelos
P. Roy Vagelos is an American physician and biochemist who discovered the acyl carrier protein and later served as chief executive officer of Merck & Co.
P. Todd Stukenberg
P. Todd Stukenberg is an American cell biologist at the University of Virginia known for research on kinetochores, Aurora B kinase, and chromosomal instability in tumors.
P.N.R. Usherwood
P.N.R. Usherwood, also known as Peter N.R. Usherwood, is a neurophysiologist at the University of Nottingham who established L-glutamate as the excitatory transmitter at the insect neuromuscular junction.
P.R.J. Burch
P.R.J. Burch (1920–1987) was a British medical physicist at the University of Leeds known for his autoaggressive disease theory and his denial that smoking causes lung cancer.
Pablo A. Celnik
Pablo A. Celnik is an Argentine-born physician-scientist in neurorehabilitation, CEO of Shirley Ryan AbilityLab in Chicago since 2023, known for using noninvasive brain stimulation to study motor learning.
Pablo A. Marquet
Pablo A. Marquet (born 1963, Santiago) is a Chilean ecologist and full professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, known for macroecology, theoretical ecology, and climate-change research.
Pablo Alberto Gonzalez
Pablo Alberto González Muñoz is a Chilean virologist and immunologist at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile known for research on herpes simplex virus entry, immune evasion, and vaccine development.