Life and health scientists

Paul Griffiths (virologist)

Paul Griffiths, also known as Paul David Griffiths, is a British virologist and Emeritus Professor of Virology at University College London, known for quantitative research on cytomegalovirus in transplant recipients.

Paul Guichard

Paul Guichard is a cell biologist and full professor at the University of Geneva who studies centriole architecture and assembly, and co-developed the U-ExM expansion microscopy method.

Paul Gyorgy

Paul Gyorgy (Pál György, 1893–1976) was a Hungarian-born biochemist and pediatrician who discovered three vitamins, including vitamin B6, and received the 1975 National Medal of Science.

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Paul H. Barber

Paul H. Barber is an American marine evolutionary biologist, a UCLA professor whose studies of the Coral Triangle earned him a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Paul H. Black

Paul H. Black is an American virologist and immunologist, an Emeritus Professor at Boston University School of Medicine known for SV40 transformation studies and research linking stress to inflammation.

Paul H. Patterson

Paul H. Patterson (1943–2014) was an American neuroscientist and developmental biologist at Caltech who created the first maternal-infection mouse models of schizophrenia and autism and showed mature neurons can change neurotransmitter identity.

Paul H. Plötz

Paul H. Plotz, also published as Paul Plotz, was an American NIH rheumatologist and internationally known myositis expert who died in 2024 at age 86.

Paul H. Taghert

Paul H. Taghert is an American neuroscientist at Washington University in St. Louis known for defining the neuropeptide PDF's role in the fruit fly circadian clock.

Paul Hansma

Paul K. Hansma is an American physicist at UC Santa Barbara known for adapting the atomic force microscope to biology and discovering the sacrificial-bond mechanism that toughens bone.

Paul Harrison (psychiatrist)

Paul J. Harrison (born 1960) is a British psychiatrist and neuroscientist, Professor of Psychiatry at Oxford since 2000, known for research on schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and COVID-19.

Paul Heller

Paul Heller (1914–2001) was a Czech-born American hematologist, Auschwitz survivor, and University of Illinois professor whose 1979 New England Journal study established the clinical benignity of sickle-cell trait.

Paul Howard-Flanders

Paul Howard-Flanders was a molecular biologist at Yale University who co-discovered DNA excision repair in the early 1960s and isolated the uvr mutants of E. coli.

Paul I. Terasaki

Paul I. Terasaki (1929–2016) was an American transplant scientist at UCLA whose microcytotoxicity HLA test became the international standard for matching organ donors with recipients.

Paul Ivan Yakovlev

Paul Ivan Yakovlev (1894–1983) was a Russian-born American neuroanatomist, Clinical Professor of Neuropathology at Harvard Medical School and founder of a collection of nearly 1,000 brain specimens.

Paul J. Hagerman

Paul J. Hagerman is an American molecular geneticist and Distinguished Professor at UC Davis whose research on FMR1 disorders led to the 2001 discovery of FXTAS.

Paul J. Hesketh

Paul J. Hesketh is an American medical oncologist who directs the Lahey Cancer Institute in Massachusetts and shaped the prevention of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting.

Paul J. J. Hooykaas

Paul J. J. Hooykaas (P. J. J. Hooykaas; born 1951) is a Dutch molecular geneticist and emeritus professor at Leiden University, known for the binary vector system for plant transformation.

Paul J. Kenny

Paul J. Kenny, also known as Paul Kenny, is an Irish-born neuroscientist who studies addiction, obesity, and schizophrenia at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Paul J. Kramer

Paul J. Kramer (1904–1995) was an American plant physiologist at Duke University whose 1937 work on water absorption founded the modern theory of plant water uptake.

Paul J. Nestel

Paul J. Nestel was an Australian cardiologist-scientist, a founding father of lipid and lipoprotein research, who published 490 papers over five decades and died in 2026.

Paul J. Tesar

Paul J. Tesar is an American molecular biologist at Case Western Reserve University who studies oligodendrocytes and regenerative therapies for myelin disorders such as multiple sclerosis and pediatric leukodystrophies.

Paul J. Thuluvath

Paul J. Thuluvath is an Indian-born transplant hepatologist in Baltimore, chief of gastroenterology at Mercy Medical Center, known for liver transplant research and hepatitis C books.

Paul J. Utz

Paul J. Utz is a professor of immunology and rheumatology at Stanford University School of Medicine, known for developing autoantigen microarrays to study autoimmune diseases.

Paul J. van der Maas

Paul J. van der Maas, full name Paul Johan van der Maas, was a Dutch public-health researcher at Erasmus University Rotterdam whose national euthanasia studies informed Dutch policy.

Paul J. Wiesner

Paul J. Wiesner (1940–2025) was an American physician and Public Health Service officer whose CDC gonorrhea research shaped national treatment policy from the 1970s onward.

Paul Jaccard

Paul Jaccard (1868–1944) was a Swiss botanist and professor of biology at ETH Zurich whose studies of Alpine floras produced the Jaccard index, introduced in 1901.

Paul Janssen

Paul Janssen (1926–2003) was a Belgian physician and pharmacologist who founded Janssen Pharmaceutica, merged it with Johnson & Johnson in 1961, and developed more than 70 medicines, including haloperidol, fentanyl, and mebendazole.

Paul Jolicoeur

Paul Jolicoeur is a Canadian virologist and Emeritus Research Professor at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute, known for the Fv-1 gene and mouse models of AIDS.

Paul K. Stumpf

Paul K. Stumpf (1919–2007) was an American plant biochemist who pioneered the study of lipid metabolism in plants, discovered alpha-oxidation, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1978.