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Paul Kaesberg

Paul Kaesberg (1923–2010) was a German-born American biophysicist and virologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who worked out the structure of small RNA viruses, especially brome mosaic virus.

Paul Kallós

Paul Kallós (1902–1988) was a Hungarian-born Swedish physician and allergist who pioneered the concept of pseudo-allergic reactions and founded the International Archives of Allergy and Applied Immunology.

Paul Khairy

Paul Khairy is a Canadian cardiologist and electrophysiologist at the Montreal Heart Institute, known for establishing arrhythmias in adult congenital heart disease as a subspecialty.

Paul Klenerman

Paul Klenerman is a physician-scientist who holds the Sidney Truelove Professorship of Gastroenterology at Oxford, known for work on T-cell failure in chronic infection and hepatitis C vaccine trials.

Paul Knoepfler

Paul Knoepfler is an American biologist, a professor of cell biology at the UC Davis School of Medicine, known for research on stem cell epigenetics and his blog The Niche.

Paul Krieg

Paul A. Krieg is an American developmental biologist at the University of Arizona known for the 1984 SP6 method for synthesizing messenger RNA in vitro.

Paul Kubes

Paul Kubes is a Canadian immunologist at the University of Calgary known for using intravital microscopy to image how neutrophils and macrophages fight bacteria in living tissue.

Paul L. Fox

Paul L. Fox is a molecular biologist at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute whose laboratory studies aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases and translational control in vascular and inflammatory disease.

Paul L. Kimmel

Paul L. Kimmel is an American nephrologist and program director at the NIDDK, known for research on kidney disease in HIV infection and his 2014 review of acute and chronic kidney disease.

Paul L. Padfield

Paul L. Padfield is a physician-scientist known for hypertension research, from vasopressin studies at the MRC Blood Pressure Unit in Glasgow to home blood pressure monitoring in Edinburgh.

Paul Labhart

Paul Labhart is a molecular biologist trained at ETH Zürich known for work on the Xenopus ribosomal RNA gene spacer and nonhomologous DNA end joining.

Paul Lehner

Paul J. Lehner is a clinician scientist and Professor of Immunology at Cambridge, known for work on viral immune evasion and for discovering the HUSH epigenetic silencing complex.

Paul Lichtenstein

Paul Lichtenstein is a Swedish genetic epidemiologist and professor at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, known for the 2012 New England Journal of Medicine study linking ADHD medication to lower criminality.

Paul Little (physician)

Paul Little is a British general practitioner and Professor of Primary Care Research at the University of Southampton, known for trials reducing antibiotic prescribing for respiratory infections.

Paul M. Aggeler

Paul M. Aggeler (1911–1969) was an American hematologist and professor of medicine at UCSF who discovered Factor IX deficiency, now called hemophilia B, and first described hereditary warfarin resistance.

Paul M. Bingham

Paul M. Bingham is a retired Associate Professor of biochemistry and cell biology at Stony Brook University, known for Drosophila transposable-element research and for developing the anti-cancer drug CPI-613, or devimistat.

Paul M. Hwang

Paul M. Hwang is an American physician-scientist who leads the Cardiovascular and Cancer Genetics laboratory at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, studying p53 and mitochondrial metabolism in cancer.

Paul M. Lieberman

Paul M. Lieberman is an American virologist and epigenetics researcher at The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia who studies latent Epstein-Barr virus infection and EBNA1 inhibitors.

Paul M. Macdonald

Paul M. Macdonald, born in Denver in 1955, is an American molecular biologist at UT Austin known for his work on bicoid and oskar mRNA localization in fruit flies.

Paul M. Matthews

Paul M. Matthews is a neurologist who founded Oxford's FMRIB brain imaging center, worked in imaging research at GlaxoSmithKline, and studies neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis.

Paul M. O’Byrne

Paul M. O'Byrne is an Irish-born Canadian physician-scientist at McMaster University whose research established airway inflammation as central to asthma, and who led the SYGMA trials changing mild asthma treatment.

Paul M. Ridker

Paul M. Ridker is an American cardiovascular researcher, Eugene Braunwald Professor at Harvard Medical School, who established the role of inflammation in heart disease prevention and treatment.

Paul M. Sharp

Paul M. Sharp is a molecular evolutionary geneticist at the University of Edinburgh known for the codon adaptation index and for tracing the origins of HIV and malaria.

Paul M. Stewart

Paul M. Stewart is a British endocrinologist and Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Leeds, known for research on corticosteroid hormones, Cushing's syndrome, and hypertension.

Paul M. Thompson

Paul M. Thompson is a neuroscientist and professor at the University of Southern California who co-founded the ENIGMA Consortium, a worldwide alliance of brain-imaging scientists studying brain diseases.

Paul M. Wassarman

Paul M. Wassarman is a reproductive biologist and professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for identifying the egg coat glycoproteins ZP1, ZP2, and ZP3.

Paul Matsudaira

Paul Matsudaira is an American cell biologist known for work on the actin cytoskeleton, 23 years at MIT and Whitehead, and cofounding Singapore's Mechanobiology Institute in 2009.

Paul McKeigue

Paul McKeigue is a physician-scientist and professor of genetic epidemiology and statistical genetics at the University of Edinburgh since 2007, known for his 1991 Lancet study of insulin resistance in South Asians.

Paul Meier (statistician)

Paul Meier (1924–2011) was an American statistician who co-developed the Kaplan–Meier estimator, the standard method for estimating survival from incomplete medical data, and championed randomized clinical trials.

Paul Moayyedi

Paul Moayyedi is a gastroenterologist and Professor of Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, known for his 2000 Lancet trial of population H. pylori screening.