Life and health scientists

Paul S. Meltzer

Paul S. Meltzer is an American cancer geneticist who applies genome-wide profiling to cancer classification and treatment, and is Chief of the Genetics Branch at the National Cancer Institute.

Paul S. Myles

Paul S. Myles is an Australian anaesthesiologist and clinical trialist who heads anaesthesiology at Alfred Health and Monash University, elected to the US National Academy of Medicine in 2019.

Paul S. Russell (1925–2026) was an American transplant surgeon and immunologist who spent seven decades at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard, helping establish organ transplantation as a clinical treatment.

Paul Sandifer

Paul Harmer Sandifer (1908–1964) was a British neurologist remembered as the pioneer of British pediatric neurology and for Sandifer syndrome, a reflux-related dystonia of childhood.

Paul Schedl

Paul Schedl is an American molecular biologist and Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University, known for work on the Drosophila sex-determination switch gene Sex-lethal and on chromatin boundary elements.

Paul Schimmel

Paul Reinhard Schimmel is an American biochemist at Scripps Research and MIT known for his work on aminoacyl tRNA synthetases, the genetic code, and cofounding several biotechnology companies.

Paul Schulze-Lefert

Paul Schulze-Lefert (born 1958 in Münster) is a German plant geneticist known for work on how plants detect pathogens and for the plant root microbiota.

Paul Snelgrove

Paul Snelgrove is a Canadian marine biologist and benthic community ecologist at Memorial University of Newfoundland who chaired the Synthesis Group of the Census of Marine Life (2000–2010).

Paul Spiegel

Paul B. Spiegel is a Canadian physician and medical epidemiologist who directs the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health and is known for research on refugee and displacement health.

Paul Sudeck

Paul Hermann Martin Sudeck was a German surgeon in Hamburg who in 1900 first described acute bone atrophy after limb trauma, known as Sudeck's atrophy.

Paul T. Englund

Paul T. Englund (1938–2019) was an American biochemist at Johns Hopkins known for working out how trypanosomes replicate their kinetoplast DNA and build GPI anchors.

Paul T. Schumacker

Paul T. Schumacker, also known as Paul Schumacker, is a scientist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine known for the mitochondrial ROS hypothesis of oxygen sensing.

Paul T. Sharpe

Paul T. Sharpe, also known as Paul Sharpe, is a molecular biologist and Emeritus Professor of Craniofacial Biology at King's College London, known for tooth development research.

Paul Talalay

Paul Talalay (1923–2019) was an American pharmacologist at Johns Hopkins who founded the field of chemoprotection and identified sulforaphane from broccoli as a potent inducer of detoxification enzymes.

Paul Trendelenburg

Paul Trendelenburg (1884–1931) was a German pharmacologist and physician who held chairs of pharmacology at Rostock, Freiburg, and Berlin, and whose 1917 guinea-pig ileum method remains in laboratory use.

Paul Uhlenhuth

Paul Uhlenhuth (1870–1957) was a German bacteriologist and immunologist who developed the precipitin test for distinguishing human from animal blood, the first reliable forensic species test, and later contributed to arsenical chemotherapy for syphilis.

Paul Vaska

Paul Vaska is an American PET physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory and professor at Stony Brook University, known for the RatCAP conscious-animal scanner and simultaneous PET/MRI.

Paul W. Armstrong

Paul W. Armstrong is a Canadian cardiologist at the University of Alberta who led major acute cardiac care trials and was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2017.

Paul W. Ewald

Paul W. Ewald is an evolutionary biologist who argues pathogen virulence evolves with transmission mode and founded evolutionary medicine with his 1994 book Evolution of Infectious Disease.

Paul W. Franks

Paul W. Franks (born 1973 in Stockport, England) is a professor of genetic epidemiology at Lund University, known for research on the genetics of obesity and type 2 diabetes.

Paul W. Glimcher

Paul W. Glimcher is an American neuroscientist at New York University credited as the founder of neuroeconomics, the study of decision-making bridging neuroscience and economics.

Paul W. K. Rothemund

Paul W. K. Rothemund, also known as Paul Rothemund, is an American researcher at Caltech who invented scaffolded DNA origami, described in Nature in 2006.

Paul W. Kincade

Paul W. Kincade (1944–2025) was an American immunologist at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation known for work on B cell development, and a president of the American Association of Immunologists.

Paul W. Newacheck

Paul W. Newacheck is an American health policy researcher and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, known for studies of children's health insurance.

Paul W. Noble

Paul W. Noble is an American pulmonary physician-scientist who studies lung fibrosis, led divisions at Duke and Cedars-Sinai, and is now a Clinical Professor at UNC Chapel Hill.

Paul W. Sternberg

Paul W. Sternberg is a Caltech biologist who studies the nematode C. elegans, known for connecting worm development genes to human cancer genes and leading WormBase.

Paul W.H.I. Parren

Paul W.H.I. Parren is a Dutch molecular immunologist, Professor of Immunology at Leiden University Medical Center since 2015, and an inventor of six approved therapeutic antibodies including daratumumab.

Paul Wilkinson (epidemiologist)

Paul Wilkinson was a British environmental epidemiologist and professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine who researched climate change and air pollution.

Paul Workman (cancer pharmacologist)

Paul Workman is a cancer pharmacologist and chemical biologist at the Institute of Cancer Research, London, known for kinase and Hsp90 inhibitors and the Pharmacological Audit Trail.