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Patricia S. Steeg

Patricia S. Steeg is an American cancer molecular biologist who discovered nm23, the first metastasis suppressor gene, and spent over forty years at the National Institutes of Health.

Patricia Taylor

Patricia Taylor names several figures: Dr. Patricia E. Taylor (1929-2024), Canadian bacteriologist and wife of ambassador Kenneth Taylor; a New York Blood Center hepatitis B researcher; and Patricia A. Taylor, a University of Minnesota immunology researcher.

Patricia Zambryski

Patricia C. Zambryski is a plant and microbial biologist, Professor Emerita at UC Berkeley, a pioneer of plant genetic engineering through her work on Agrobacterium DNA transfer.

Patrick A. Baeuerle

Patrick A. Baeuerle is a German immunologist and cancer-drug developer known for discovering the NF-κB inhibitor IκB and for developing blinatumomab (Blincyto), the first bispecific T-cell engager approved for leukemia, in 2014.

Patrick A. Ott

Patrick A. Ott, also known as Patrick Alexander Ott, is a medical oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School who develops personalized neoantigen vaccines for melanoma.

Patrick A. Riley

Patrick A. Riley, also published as P. A. Riley, is a cell pathologist and Emeritus Professor of Cell Pathology at University College London, known for research on melanocytes and melanoma therapy.

Patrick A. Zollner

Patrick A. Zollner is an American quantitative wildlife ecologist and Professor at Purdue University. He is known for his research on animal movement in fragmented landscapes and wildlife conflict.

Patrick Aebischer

Patrick Aebischer, born 1954 in Fribourg, is a Swiss neuroscientist and physician who was president of EPFL from 2000 to 2016 and pioneered encapsulated-cell gene therapy for ALS.

Patrick Aloy

Patrick Aloy, born 1972 in Barcelona, is a Spanish computational biologist and ICREA professor who leads the Structural Bioinformatics Lab at IRB Barcelona, known for Interactome3D and the Chemical Checker.

Patrick Aubourg

Patrick Aubourg is a French pediatric neurologist and Inserm researcher whose work on X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy spans the 1990 bone-marrow transplant report to 2024 gene-therapy results.

Patrick C. Walsh

Patrick C. Walsh, born 1938, is an American urologist who directed the Brady Urological Institute at Johns Hopkins for thirty years and pioneered nerve-sparing prostate surgery.

Patrick Cavanagh

Patrick Cavanagh (born 1947) is a Canadian vision scientist known for research on visual perception, attention, and motion, with professorships at Harvard, Dartmouth, and the Université de Montréal.

Patrick Charnay

Patrick Charnay (born 1954) is a French molecular biologist, emeritus research director at Inserm and professor at the École Normale Supérieure, known for work on gene regulation in hindbrain development.

Patrick Concannon

Patrick Concannon is a geneticist at the University of Florida who studies type 1 diabetes susceptibility genes, DNA damage responses, and breast cancer genetics, directing the UF Genetics Institute.

Patrick Cramer

Patrick Cramer is a German chemist and structural molecular biologist known for determining the structure of RNA polymerase II, and president of the Max Planck Society since 2023.

Patrick D. Wall

Patrick D. Wall, also known as P. D. Wall, was a British neurophysiologist best known for co-proposing the gate control theory of pain, published in Science in 1965.

Patrick DeLeon

Patrick DeLeon is an American psychologist and health policy scholar who spent 38 years on Senator Daniel Inouye's staff, retiring as Chief of Staff in 2011, and served as APA president in 2000.

Patrick Doherty (neuroscientist)

Patrick Doherty is a molecular neuroscientist and Emeritus Professor at King's College London, at King's from 1990, known for work on neural cell adhesion molecules and the enzymes that synthesize 2-AG.

Patrick Emery

Patrick Emery is a chronobiologist and professor of neurobiology at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts, known for discovering cryptochrome's role in circadian rhythms.

Patrick F. Chinnery

Patrick F. Chinnery is a British neurologist and neurogeneticist at Cambridge known for work on mitochondrial DNA disorders, and Executive Chair of the Medical Research Council.

Patrick F. Sullivan

Patrick F. Sullivan, also known as Patrick Sullivan, is a psychiatric geneticist at UNC Chapel Hill and Karolinska Institutet who founded the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium.

Patrick Forterre

Patrick Forterre is a French biochemist and microbiologist, a professor at the Institut Pasteur since 2014, known for his work on Archaea and DNA topoisomerases.

Patrick G. Hogan

Patrick Hogan is an American molecular biologist at La Jolla Institute for Immunology who discovered the transcription factor NFAT and helped define store-operated calcium entry in T cells.

Patrick G. Holt

Patrick G. Holt, born 1945, is an Australian immunologist at The Kids Research Institute Australia in Perth, known for work on early-life origins of allergy and asthma.

Patrick G. O’Connor

Patrick G. O'Connor is an American physician-scientist at Yale School of Medicine who led the first randomized trial of buprenorphine for opioid dependence in primary care.

Patrick H. Maxwell

Patrick H. Maxwell, born 1962, is a British nephrologist known for work on how cells sense oxygen through the VHL and HIF pathway, and Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge since 2012.

Patrick H. O’Farrell

Patrick H. O'Farrell is an American developmental biologist at UCSF, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2017 for work on cell division in embryos.

Patrick Haggard

Patrick Haggard is a British cognitive neuroscientist, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, whose 2002 paper introduced the intentional binding effect linking voluntary actions to their outcomes.

Patrick Hwu

Patrick Hwu is a tumor immunologist and the president and CEO of Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida, since 2020, after 17 years in leadership at MD Anderson.

Patrick J. Keeling

Patrick J. Keeling is a Canadian evolutionary microbiologist and professor at the University of British Columbia who studies protists and identified Provora, a new supergroup of microbial predators.