Life and health scientists

Paul Modrich

Paul Modrich (born 1946) is an American biochemist at Duke University who elucidated DNA mismatch repair, the pathway correcting replication errors, and shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Paul Müller (Swiss chemist)

Paul Hermann Müller (1899–1965) was a Swiss chemist at J. R. Geigy in Basle who discovered DDT's insecticidal action, winning the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Paul Muntner is an American cardiovascular epidemiologist known for blood pressure measurement and hypertension control, whose 2017 analysis estimated 103.3 million US adults had hypertension under the ACC/AHA guideline.

Paul N. Durrington

Paul N. Durrington, also known as Paul Durrington, is a British physician-scientist in lipid disorders who pioneered cascade family screening for familial hypercholesterolaemia and led the CARDS statin trial.

Paul N. Maton

Paul N. Maton, also cited as P. N. Maton, is a British-trained gastroenterologist known for research on Zollinger–Ellison syndrome, omeprazole, and octreotide at NIH and in Oklahoma.

Paul N. Yu

Paul N. Yu, born Paul Nan-Gan Yu, was a Chinese-born American cardiologist who built the University of Rochester's cardiology unit and was American Heart Association president in 1972.

Paul Negulescu

Paul Negulescu is a cell biologist and Vertex Pharmaceuticals Senior Vice President in San Diego who led discovery of the CFTR modulators treating cystic fibrosis, winning the 2024 Breakthrough Prize and the 2025 Lasker~DeBakey Award.

Paul Nghiem

Paul T. Nghiem is an American physician-scientist, Founding Chair of Dermatology at the University of Washington, who led the pembrolizumab trial supporting FDA approval for Merkel cell carcinoma.

Paul Nurse

Sir Paul Nurse, born in 1949, is a British cell biologist who won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering protein molecules that control cell division.

Paul O. P. Ts’o

Paul O. P. Ts'o (曹安邦, born 1929 in Hong Kong, died 2009) was a Chinese-born American biophysical chemist at Johns Hopkins known for hamster-cell carcinogenesis studies and Matagen, an early gene-targeting concept.

Paul O’Connor

Paul W. O'Connor is a Canadian neurologist and clinical epidemiologist who led pivotal multiple sclerosis trials, including the 2003 natalizumab and 2011 TEMSO teriflunomide trials.

Paul Owren

Paul Arnor Owren (1905–1990) was a Norwegian physician and professor at the University of Oslo who discovered coagulation Factor V and developed the Thrombotest method.

Paul P. Carbone

Paul P. Carbone was an American medical oncologist who helped develop MOPP and CMF chemotherapy, led ECOG, shared the 1972 Lasker Award, and directed the UW Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Paul Portier (French physiologist)

Paul Portier (1866–1962) was a French physiologist who co-discovered anaphylaxis with Charles Richet in 1902, first applied the endosymbiotic idea to mitochondria in his 1918 book Les Symbiotes, and taught comparative physiology at the Sorbonne.

Paul Quinton

Paul M. Quinton is an American physiologist at the University of California who defined the basic electrolyte defect in cystic fibrosis through experiments on single human sweat ducts.

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Paul R. Ehrlich

Paul Ralph Ehrlich (1932–2026), Stanford population biologist, co-developed coevolution theory with Peter Raven and wrote The Population Bomb (1968), the bestselling overpopulation warning that founded Zero Population Growth but whose famine predictions failed.

Paul R. Ortiz de Montellano

Paul R. Ortiz de Montellano is Professor Emeritus of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco, known for cytochrome P450 mechanisms, heme oxygenase, and tuberculosis drug targets.

Paul R. Riley

Paul R. Riley is a British developmental and cardiovascular biologist, BHF Professor of Regenerative Medicine at Oxford, known for work on reactivating the adult heart's epicardium after heart attack.

Paul Rijlant

Paul Rijlant, also known as Pierre Rijlant, was a Belgian physiologist at the Université libre de Bruxelles who pioneered cathode-ray oscillography of the human heart.

Paul Robert Bing

Paul Robert Bing (1878–1956) was a German-Swiss neurologist who founded modern neurology in Basel, wrote influential neurology textbooks, and gave his name to Bing's reflex and the Bing-Horton syndrome.

Paul Roberts Cannon

Paul Roberts Cannon (1892–1986) was an American pathologist and immunologist at the University of Chicago who showed that dietary protein is required to maintain resistance to infection.

Paul Rufus Burkholder

Paul Rufus Burkholder (1903–1972) was an American microbiologist and botanist, born in Orrstown, Pennsylvania, who discovered the antibiotic chloramphenicol in 1947 and later studied marine antibiotics at Yale and in Puerto Rico.

Paul Russell (molecular biologist)

Paul Russell (born 1956) is a molecular biologist at The Scripps Research Institute known for work on cell-cycle control and DNA repair in fission yeast.

Paul Rutgeerts

Paul Rutgeerts (1948–2020) was a Belgian gastroenterologist and professor at KU Leuven whose infliximab trials reshaped IBD treatment, and whose Rutgeerts score and SES-CD remain standard in Crohn's disease trials.

Paul S. Appelbaum

Paul S. Appelbaum is an American psychiatrist at Columbia University who works at the intersection of law, ethics, and psychiatry, known for the MacCAT-T capacity assessment tool.

Paul S. Burgoyne

Paul S. Burgoyne (1946–2020) was a British mouse geneticist at the UK Medical Research Council who made fundamental discoveries about sex determination and Y-chromosome genes required for sperm production.

Paul S. Chan

Paul S. Chan is an American cardiologist at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City who studies cardiac arrest outcomes and care quality.

Paul S. Cremer

Paul S. Cremer is an American chemist who holds the J. Lloyd Huck Chair at Penn State since 2013, known for Hofmeister ion effects and supported lipid bilayers.

Paul S. Frenette

Paul S. Frenette (1965–2021) was a Canadian hematologist and stem cell biologist who founded and led the Gottesman Institute for Stem Cell Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.