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Peggy Farnham

Peggy Farnham is an American molecular biologist at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, a founding ENCODE member known for developing ChIP methods for mammalian cells.

Pehr B. Harbury

Pehr B. Harbury is an American biochemist and associate professor at Stanford University whose DNA-templated synthesis method programs small-molecule drug discovery, earning him a 2005 MacArthur Fellowship.

Pehr Victor Edman

Pehr Victor Edman (1916–1977) was a Swedish biochemist who devised the Edman degradation, the stepwise method for protein sequencing, and later built an automated protein sequenator.

Pei Zhou

Pei Zhou is a structural biologist and biochemist at Duke University who uses NMR spectroscopy and crystallography to study protein structures and develop antibiotic and anticancer drug leads.

Peijun Zhang

Peijun Zhang is a structural biologist working in cryo-electron microscopy, Professor at Oxford and founding director of eBIC, known for the complete all-atom structure of the HIV-1 capsid.

Peixuan Guo

Peixuan Guo (郭培宣) is a nanobiotechnologist who founded the field of RNA nanotechnology, discovered the phi29 motor pRNA, and holds an endowed chair at Ohio State University.

Pejman Rohani

Pejman Rohani is a British-trained disease ecologist and mathematical epidemiologist at the University of Georgia, known for work on stochastic epidemic dynamics and pertussis resurgence.

Pekka Lappalainen

Pekka Lappalainen, born in 1966 in Espoo, Finland, is a Finnish cell biologist and professor at the University of Helsinki known for his work on actin cytoskeleton regulation.

Pekka Puska

Pekka Puska is a Finnish public health physician and epidemiologist who directed the North Karelia Project from 1972 and later led noncommunicable disease prevention at the World Health Organization.

Penelope Boston

Penelope (Penny) Boston is an American speleologist and astrobiologist who pioneered the study of cave microorganisms as analogs for life on other planets, and directed NASA's Astrobiology Institute from 2016.

Peng Chen (molecular biologist)

Peng Chen is a chemist who holds the Peter J. W. Debye Professorship of Chemistry at Cornell University, known for single-molecule imaging of catalytic reactions on individual nanoparticles.

Peng Huang (molecular biologist)

Peng Huang (黄蓬) is a Chinese molecular biologist and cancer-metabolism researcher known for work on reactive oxygen species as a basis for selectively killing cancer cells.

Peng Jin

Peng Jin is an American human geneticist, chair of human genetics at Emory University School of Medicine, known for work on microRNAs, RNA modifications, and fragile X syndrome.

Peng Yang (杨鹏)

Peng Yang (杨鹏) is a Chinese geneticist who studies KRAB zinc-finger proteins and has been a tenured professor at Tongji University in Shanghai since 2018.

Peng-Sheng Chen

Peng-Sheng Chen is a cardiac electrophysiologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, known for research on the autonomic nervous system in atrial fibrillation and sudden cardiac death.

Pennie Lindeque

Pennie Lindeque is a British marine ecologist who leads Marine Ecology and Biodiversity at Plymouth Marine Laboratory, known for showing that zooplankton ingest microplastics and carry them up marine food webs.

Penny L. Moore

Penny L. Moore is a South African virologist at the University of the Witwatersrand and the NICD who studies HIV broadly neutralizing antibodies and SARS-CoV-2 immune escape.

Pentao Liu

Pentao Liu, published as Pengtao Liu, is a stem cell biologist and professor at the University of Hong Kong known for developing Expanded Potential Stem Cells.

Per A. Peterson

Per A. Peterson, also known as Per Artur Peterson, is a Swedish-born immunologist known for MHC research who chaired immunology at Scripps before leading Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical R&D.

Per Ahlberg

Per Erik Ahlberg is a Swedish vertebrate paleontologist and professor at Uppsala University known for discovering the earliest tetrapod body fossils and oldest tetrapod footprints.

Per Andersen

Per Andersen (1930–2020) was a Norwegian neuroscientist at the University of Oslo whose lab identified inhibitory neurons, developed the hippocampal slice, and discovered long-term potentiation.

Per Björntorp

Per Björntorp (1931–2003) was a Swedish physician-scientist at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg who researched obesity and is described as one of the fathers of the metabolic syndrome concept.

Per Eystein Lønning

Per Eystein Lønning, also published as Per E. Lønning, is a Norwegian oncologist and University of Bergen professor known for research on breast cancer treatment resistance.

Per Fredrik Scholander

Per Fredrik Scholander (1905–1980) was a Norwegian-American physiologist who pioneered the study of diving mammals, invented the Scholander gas analyzer, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1961.

Per Halkjær Nielsen

Per Halkjær Nielsen is a Danish professor of environmental microbiology at Aalborg University who studies the microbial ecology of activated sludge and created the MiDAS reference database.

Per Hall

Per Hall is a Swedish medical oncologist and professor of radiation epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet who studies breast-cancer genetics and risk-based screening, and founded the KARMA mammography cohort in 2010.

Per Soelberg Sørensen

Per Soelberg Sørensen is a Danish neurologist and multiple sclerosis researcher who founded the Danish Multiple Sclerosis Center at Rigshospitalet and won the 2017 Charcot award.

Per Svenningsson

Per Svenningsson is a Swedish neurologist and neuroscientist, Professor of Neurology at Karolinska Institutet and a Senior Physician at Karolinska University Hospital, known for work on serotonin signaling and Parkinson's disease.

Per-Olof Berggren

Per-Olof Berggren is a Swedish professor of experimental endocrinology at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, director of the Rolf Luft Research Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology, elected to the US National Academy of Medicine in 2016.

Per‐Henrik Groop

Per-Henrik Groop is a Finnish physician-scientist in endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism at the University of Helsinki, known for founding the FinnDiane Study, a nationwide cohort of nearly 10,000 people with type 1 diabetes.