Life and health scientists

Pablo García‐Pavía

Pablo García-Pavía is a Spanish cardiologist who leads the inherited cardiac diseases unit at Puerta de Hierro hospital in Madrid and researches transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy.

Pablo Rubinstein

Pablo Rubinstein is a hematologist and immunogeneticist at the New York Blood Center whose 1996 and 1998 studies established unrelated-donor cord blood as a stem-cell source.

Padmanee Sharma

Padmanee Sharma is a physician-scientist in immuno-oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center whose clinical trials in bladder and kidney cancer contributed to FDA approvals of nivolumab.

Pál Maliga

Pal Maliga, born 1946 in Budapest, is a Hungarian-born plant geneticist and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers whose group developed stable chloroplast genome transformation in flowering plants.

Paleobiology

Paleobiology is the study of ancient life as a biological subject, using the fossil record to ask how organisms lived, functioned, diversified, and went extinct.

Palmer W. Taylor

Palmer W. Taylor is an American pharmacologist at UC San Diego, founding dean of its pharmacy school, known for decades of work on acetylcholine signaling.

Paloma Más

Paloma Más is a Spanish plant biologist and CSIC Research Professor who leads a circadian clock group at CRAG in Barcelona, studying Arabidopsis and crops.

Pamela A. Silver

Pamela A. Silver is an American systems and synthetic biologist, Adams Professor at Harvard Medical School, known for discovering nuclear localization signals and pioneering synthetic biology.

Pamela B. Davis

Pamela B. Davis is an American pulmonary physician-scientist at Case Western Reserve University whose 1995 trial established high-dose ibuprofen as a treatment slowing cystic fibrosis lung decline.

Pamela Guerrerio

Pamela Guerrerio is a physician-scientist who is Chief of the Laboratory of Allergic Diseases and Food Allergy Research Section at NIH's NIAID, and received a 2014 PECASE award.

Pamela J. Bjorkman

Pamela J. Björkman is an American structural immunologist, the David Baltimore Professor at Caltech, known for the first MHC protein structure and HIV and SARS-CoV-2 antibody work.

Pamela J. Fraker

Pamela J. Fraker is an American nutritional immunologist at Michigan State University known for showing how zinc deficiency reprograms the immune system, weakening antibody responses.

Pamela J. Goodwin

Pamela J. Goodwin (Pamela Jean Goodwin) is a Canadian medical oncologist and clinical epidemiologist at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, known for research on breast cancer outcomes.

Pamela J. Shaw

Pamela J. Shaw, also published as Pamela Shaw, is a British neurologist and motor neuron disease researcher who directs the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience.

Pamela L. Schwartzberg

Pamela L. Schwartzberg is an American immunologist who has run an NIH laboratory since 1997, now at NIAID, known for work on Tec kinases and X-linked lymphoproliferative disease.

Pamela C. Ronald is an American plant pathologist and geneticist at UC Davis who isolated the rice immune receptor XA21 and the Sub1A submergence-tolerance gene, winning the 2022 Wolf Prize in Agriculture.

Pamela S. Douglas

Pamela S. Douglas is an American cardiologist at Duke University, a past president of the American College of Cardiology, and leader of the REPRIEVE statin trial in HIV.

Pamela S. Ohashi

Pamela Ohashi is a Canadian immunologist known for work on T-cell activation and tolerance, and directs the Tumor Immunotherapy Program at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto.

Pamela S. Soltis

Pamela S. Soltis is an American plant evolutionary biologist at the University of Florida's Florida Museum of Natural History, known for angiosperm phylogenetics and polyploid speciation research.

Pamela Sklar

Pamela Sklar (1959–2017) was an American psychiatric geneticist whose 2009 Nature paper gave the first robust evidence that schizophrenia risk is polygenic, involving thousands of common variants.

Pamela Stanley

Pamela Stanley is an Australian-American glycobiologist and Professor Emerita at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, known for creating lectin-resistant CHO cell lines that revealed how cell-surface carbohydrates are built.

Panagiotis Roussos

Panagiotis (Panos) Roussos is a physician-scientist in psychiatric genomics who studies the neurobiology of schizophrenia at the James J. Peters VA Medical Center and Mount Sinai, winning a 2013 PECASE award.

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Pandurang

Atmaram Pandurang (आत्माराम पांडुरंग, 1823–1898) was a Bombay physician and social reformer who founded the Prarthana Samaj in 1867 and served as Sheriff of Bombay in 1879.

Pandurangan Vijayanand

Pandurangan Vijayanand is a physician-scientist in immunology who leads the William K. Bowes Distinguished Professorship at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, studying T-cell genomics in asthma, lung cancer, and COVID-19.

Pankaj J. Pasricha

Pankaj J. Pasricha, also known as Pankaj Jay Pasricha, is a gastroenterologist and neurogastroenterology researcher who introduced botulinum toxin treatment for achalasia and chairs medicine at Mayo Clinic in Arizona.

Pankaj Kapahi

Pankaj Kapahi is an aging biologist and professor at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, known for linking the TOR nutrient pathway to lifespan and for the eyeAge retinal aging clock.

Pankaj Sah

Pankaj Sah is an Australian neuroscientist who has directed the Queensland Brain Institute since 2015 and is known for work on the amygdala's role in learning and memory.

Panos Roussos

Panos Roussos (Panagiotis Roussos) is a Greek-trained geneticist and psychiatrist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he directs the Center for Disease Neurogenomics.

Pao‐Tien Chuang

Pao-Tien Chuang is a molecular biologist and physician-scientist, Professor in the Cardiovascular Research Institute at UCSF, who studies Hedgehog signaling and lung development and identified Hedgehog-interacting protein in 1999.