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Paul Zimmet

Paul Zimmet is an Australian physician and epidemiologist, Professor of Diabetes at Monash University, credited with predicting the global type 2 diabetes epidemic and coining "diabesity".

Paul Zoll

Paul Maurice Zoll was an American cardiologist at Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School who showed in 1952 that the heart could be paced through the closed chest.

Paul‐Henri Lambert

Paul-Henri Lambert is a Belgian-born physician-scientist and immunologist at the University of Geneva who led WHO vaccine research and founded the Advanced Course of Vaccinology (ADVAC).

Paula A. Rochon

Paula A. Rochon is a Canadian geriatrician and health-services researcher at the University of Toronto, known for the prescribing cascade concept and for founding Women's Age Lab in 2021.

Paula Braveman

Paula A. Braveman is an American physician and social epidemiologist, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, known for defining and measuring health disparities and health equity.

Paula D. Ryan

Paula D. Ryan is an American medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer, known for the HOXB13:IL17BR two-gene ratio predicting tamoxifen outcomes; she has practiced at Massachusetts General, Fox Chase, and Texas Oncology.

Paula J. Grabowski

Paula J. Grabowski is a molecular biologist and Professor Emerita at the University of Pittsburgh who helped identify the spliceosome and studied how RNA splicing is regulated in neurons.

Paula Johnson

Paula A. Johnson is an American cardiologist who founded the Connors Center for Women's Health and has served as the 14th president of Wellesley College since 2016.

Paula Lemons

Paula Lemons is an American biochemistry education researcher and professor at the University of Georgia, a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Paula M. Pitha

Paula M. Pitha, also published as Paula Pitha-Rowe (1937–2015), was a Czech-born virologist who led interferon research at Johns Hopkins, showing how herpesvirus infection can reactivate latent HIV.

Paulus Kirchhof

Paulus Kirchhof is a German cardiologist and electrophysiologist who directs cardiology at the University Heart and Vascular Center in Hamburg and led the EAST-AFNET 4 trial.

Paulus T.V.M. de Jong

Paulus T.V.M. de Jong is a Dutch ophthalmology researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, known for age-related macular degeneration research and co-discovering the gene behind pseudoxanthoma elasticum.

Pavan P Ramdya

Pavan P Ramdya, also published as Pavan Ramdya, is an American neuroscientist and Associate Professor at EPFL whose laboratory reverse-engineers the fruit fly to study motor behavior.

Pavan Reddy

Pavan Reddy is an Indian-born American hematologist-oncologist directing the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine, known for research on graft-versus-host disease.

Pavel Baranov

Pavel Baranov (Павел Баранов) is an RNA biologist and Professor of Biomolecular Informatics at University College Cork who studies genetic decoding, translation termination, and ribosome stalling.

Pavel Osten

Pavel Osten is a neuroscientist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory who develops automated microscopy, including serial two-photon tomography, to map cell types and connectivity across the whole mouse brain.

Pavel Pevzner

Pavel Pevzner is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at UC San Diego who pioneered de Bruijn graph genome assembly, created the Flye assembler, and wrote widely adopted bioinformatics textbooks.

Pavel Strnad

Pavel Strnad is a German hepatologist and professor at University Hospital RWTH Aachen who led the phase 2 trial of fazirsiran, an RNA therapy for alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency.

Pawan Sinha

Pawan Sinha is a professor of vision and computational neuroscience at MIT whose Project Prakash treats curably blind children in India and studies how their brains learn to see.

Paweł Kisielow

Paweł Kisielow, also known as Pawel Kisielow, is a Polish immunologist and Professor Emeritus in Wrocław known for identifying the two major T cell subsets and thymic selection.

Pearay L. Ogra

Pearay L. Ogra, born in 1939, is a pediatric infectious diseases physician and mucosal immunology researcher whose 1968 study showed live oral poliovaccine induces secretory IgA.

Pearse A. Keane

Pearse A. Keane is an Irish ophthalmologist and medical AI researcher, Professor at UCL and Moorfields Eye Hospital, known for pioneering AI eye diagnosis and founding oculomics.

Pedro A. Sanchez

Pedro A. Sanchez (1940–2026) was a Cuban-born American soil scientist known for restoring depleted farmland in Africa and South America, winning the 2002 World Food Prize.

Pedro Beltrão

Pedro Beltrão, born 1979, is a Swiss-based computational systems biologist who studies genetic variation and post-translational modification, and is an Associate Professor at ETH Zurich since 2022.

Pedro Carvalho (cell biologist)

Pedro Carvalho is a Portuguese cell biologist who has been EP Abraham Professor at the University of Oxford since 2016, known for work on ER-associated protein degradation.

Pedro Cuatrecasas

Pedro Cuatrecasas (1936–2025) was a Spanish-born American biochemist and pharmacologist who co-invented affinity chromatography, won the 1987 Wolf Prize, and helped develop more than 40 medicines.

Pedro L. Alonso

Pedro L. Alonso is a Spanish physician and epidemiologist who led the RTS,S malaria vaccine trials and directed the WHO Global Malaria Programme from 2014 to 2022.

Pedro León Azofeifa

Pedro León Azofeifa is a Costa Rican molecular geneticist, a Catedrático at the Universidad de Costa Rica who mapped and cloned the gene behind the Monge family's hereditary deafness.

Pedro Pinto da Silva

Pedro Pinto da Silva is a cell biologist who used freeze-fracture and freeze-etch electron microscopy to work out how membranes split and distribute components between their two halves.

Peer Bork

Peer Bork (1963–2026) was a German computational biologist at EMBL Heidelberg, best known for the STRING protein-interaction database, the iTOL tree tool, and the concept of gut microbiome enterotypes.