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Paul E. Goss

Paul E. Goss (1955–2025) was a South African-born medical oncologist and Harvard professor whose MA.17 and MAP.3 trials at Massachusetts General Hospital defined breast cancer therapy and prevention.

Paul E. Klotman

Paul E. Klotman is an American physician-scientist in nephrology and HIV research who served as president of Baylor College of Medicine from 2010 to 2026.

Paul E. Marik

Paul E. Marik, also known as Paul Ellis Marik, is a South African–born critical care physician who created the HAT sepsis protocol and co-founded the FLCCC.

Paul E. Neiman

Paul E. Neiman (1939–2017) was an American physician-scientist and founding faculty member of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center who studied retroviruses and oncogenes in chickens.

Paul E. Sax

Paul E. Sax is an American infectious-diseases physician and HIV researcher who is Clinical Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

Paul E. Turner

Paul E. Turner is an evolutionary biologist and virologist at Yale University who studies experimental evolution of viruses and develops bacteriophage therapies against antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Paul Ehrlich

Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915) was a German immunologist who shared the 1908 Nobel Prize for work on immunity and developed Salvarsan, the first drug against syphilis.

Paul Elliott (physician-epidemiologist)

Paul Elliott is a British physician-epidemiologist, Professor at Imperial College London, who directs the REACT Covid-19 surveillance program tracking infection in over 3 million people in England.

Paul Emery

Paul Emery is a British rheumatologist, the Versus Arthritis Professor of Rheumatology at the University of Leeds, known for establishing early intervention and biologic therapy as standard in rheumatoid arthritis.

Paul Eston Lacy

Paul Eston Lacy (1924–2005) was an American pathologist who led pathology at Washington University and pioneered islet transplantation, curing diabetic rats in 1972 and enabling the first insulin-independent patient in 1989.

Paul F. Agris

Paul F. Agris is an American RNA biochemist, a research professor at Duke University School of Medicine, known for the modified wobble hypothesis and the RNA Modification Database.

Paul F. Hessburg

Paul F. Hessburg is an American research ecologist with the USDA Forest Service in Wenatchee, Washington, known for documenting how fire suppression transformed Inland Northwest forests.

Paul F. Pilch

Paul F. Pilch is an American biochemist and Emeritus Professor at Boston University School of Medicine, known for identifying the glucose transporter GLUT4 in 1988.

Paul F. Worley

Paul F. Worley is an American neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins known for identifying neuronal immediate early genes, including Homer, and studying the molecular basis of memory.

Paul Farmer

Paul Edward Farmer (1959–2022), American physician and medical anthropologist, co-founder of Partners In Health (Zanmi Lasante) in Haiti, pioneer of structural violence analysis, MDR-TB and HIV treatment equity, and chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda.

Paul Fildes

Paul Fildes was a British microbiologist who founded the study of bacterial nutrition and led Britain's biological warfare research at Porton Down during World War II.

Paul Flechsig

Paul Emil Flechsig (1847–1929) was a German neuroanatomist and psychiatrist who held the first psychiatry chair at Leipzig and founded the myelogenetic method of cortical mapping.

Paul Flicek

Paul Flicek is a computational genomics researcher who led the Ensembl genome annotation project at EMBL-EBI from 2007 to 2022 and joined The Jackson Laboratory as chief data science officer in 2023.

Paul Frankland

Paul Frankland is a Canadian neuroscientist and University of Toronto professor at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, known for research on memory consolidation, engrams, and forgetting.

Paul Frosch

Paul Frosch (1860–1928) was a German bacteriologist who, with Friedrich Loeffler, proved in 1898 that foot-and-mouth disease is caused by a filter-passing virus, the first animal disease shown viral.

Paul G Shekelle

Paul G Shekelle is an American physician and health-services researcher known for evidence-based medicine, who is Professor of Medicine at UCLA and Chief of General Internal Medicine at the West Los Angeles VA.

Paul G. Falkowski

Paul G. Falkowski, also published as Paul Falkowski, is an American biological oceanographer at Rutgers University known for measuring how much carbon the ocean's phytoplankton fix through photosynthesis.

Paul G. Quie

Paul G. Quie, born in 1925, is an American pediatrician and physician-scientist at the University of Minnesota who pioneered the study of neutrophil function in human disease.

Paul G. Richardson

Paul G. Richardson is an American hematologist-oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School whose clinical trials established standard multiple myeloma drugs, including bortezomib and lenalidomide.

Paul G. Thomas

Paul G. Thomas is a viral immunologist who leads the Immunology and Vaccine Development Program at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, studying T cells and influenza immunity.

Paul Garrity

Paul A. Garrity is a biology professor at Brandeis University who studies the molecular sensors and neural circuits insects use to detect temperature, humidity, and chemicals.

Paul Glasziou

Paul P. Glasziou is an Australian general practitioner and evidence-based medicine researcher, Emeritus Professor at Bond University who directed its Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare from 2010 to 2024.

Paul Goldhaber

Paul Goldhaber (1924–2008) was an American periodontist and bone biologist, dean of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine from 1968 to 1990, known for his bone resorption research.

Paul Grawitz

Paul Albert Grawitz (1850–1932) was a German pathologist trained under Rudolf Virchow, known for the Grawitz tumour eponym and his disproven theory that kidney tumors arise from adrenal tissue.

Paul Greengard

Paul Greengard (1925–2019) was an American neuroscientist at Rockefeller University who won the 2000 Nobel Prize for showing that dopamine acts by adding phosphate groups to proteins.