Life and health scientists

Percival Bailey

Percival Bailey (1892–1973) was an American neurosurgeon and neuropathologist best known for the first histological classification of brain gliomas with Harvey Cushing and for showing in 1921 that diabetes insipidus originates in the hypothalamus.

Percy A. Knolle

Percy A. Knolle, born 1962, is a German physician-scientist in liver immunology and founding Director of the Institute of Molecular Immunology at the Technical University of Munich since 2013.

Percy Theodore Herring

Percy Theodore Herring was a British physician and physiologist, Chandos Professor at St Andrews for forty years, remembered for first describing the pituitary Herring bodies in 1908.

Percy W. Clutterbuck

Percy W. Clutterbuck, born Percival Walter Clutterbuck (1897–1938), was an English biochemist at the University of London who made the first published attempt to isolate penicillin.

Pere Ginès

Pere Ginès is a Spanish hepatologist and Full Professor at the University of Barcelona, known for work on cirrhosis complications, the 1991 paracentesis trial, and EASL guidelines.

Pere Puigserver

Pere Puigserver (born 1965) is a cell biologist, professor at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, known for discovering PGC-1α in 1998 and diabetes drug research.

Pere Roca-Cusachs

Pere Roca-Cusachs is a Spanish cell biophysicist and professor of physiology at the University of Barcelona who studies how cells detect and respond to mechanical forces from their environment.

Pere Santamaría

Pere Santamaría is a Spanish-born Canadian immunologist at the University of Calgary who studies type 1 diabetes and invented Navacims, nanomedicines that reprogram disease-causing immune cells.

Periannan Senapathy

Periannan Senapathy is an Indian-born molecular biologist who proposed the split gene theory of exon-intron gene origins and wrote the 1994 book Independent Birth of Organisms.

Pernille Rørth

Pernille Rørth is a Danish molecular biologist who studies how cells migrate and divide during development using the fruit fly Drosophila, known for identifying tribbles as a cell cycle regulator.

Perrin C. White

Perrin C. White is an American pediatric endocrinologist who has led the pediatric endocrinology division at UT Southwestern in Dallas since 1994, known for research on congenital adrenal hyperplasia.

Perry A. Frey

Perry A. Frey (born 1935) is an American biochemist, professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, whose studies of lysine 2,3-aminomutase identified the radical SAM mechanism of enzymatic catalysis.

Perry Elliott

Perry Mark Elliott, born 1963 in London, is a British cardiologist, professor at University College London, and consultant at St Bartholomew's Hospital, known for research on hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Perry F. Renshaw

Perry F. Renshaw is an American physician-scientist in psychiatric neuroimaging who led McLean Hospital's Brain Imaging Center from 1992 to 2008 and studies brain chemistry in mood disorders.

Perry J. Blackshear

Perry J. Blackshear is an American biochemist and NIH Scientist Emeritus whose laboratory cloned tristetraprolin, a zinc finger protein that promotes decay of TNF-α mRNA.

Perry J. Pickhardt

Perry J. Pickhardt is an American radiologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for developing CT colonography, or virtual colonoscopy, as a screening test for colorectal cancer.

Perry L. Adkisson

Perry L. Adkisson (1929–2020) was an American agricultural entomologist at Texas A&M University who pioneered integrated pest management, reducing insecticide use, and shared the 1997 World Food Prize.

Perry William Wilson

Perry William Wilson (1902–1981) was an American microbiologist and professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin who turned biological nitrogen fixation into a quantitative science.

Pertti J. Neuvonen

Pertti J. Neuvonen, full name Pertti Jaakko Neuvonen (1943–2020), was a Finnish professor of clinical pharmacology at Helsinki who identified over 200 drug–drug interactions and showed P450 inhibition can raise drug concentrations more than tenfold.

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Petar Beron

Petar Beron (Петър Берон), born in Kotel around 1799 or 1800, was a Bulgarian physician and educational reformer whose 1824 Fish Primer was the first modern Bulgarian secular textbook.

Pete Smith (soil scientist)

Pete Smith is a global ecosystem modeller, Professor of Soils and Global Change at the University of Aberdeen, and Science Director of ClimateXChange, known for work on greenhouse gas removal.

Peter A Jones

Peter A Jones is a South African-born cancer epigenetics researcher whose discovery that 5-azacytidine inhibits DNA methylation led to the drug's 2004 approval for myelodysplastic syndrome.

Peter A. Beal

Peter A. Beal is an American chemist and professor at the University of California, Davis, known for research on the chemical biology of RNA editing.

Peter A. Calabresi

Peter A. Calabresi is an American neurologist and neuroimmunologist known for research on how immune cells damage the brain in multiple sclerosis and for retinal imaging to track the disease.

Peter A. Campochiaro

Peter A. Campochiaro, born in 1952, is an American ophthalmologist and Eccles Professor at Johns Hopkins' Wilmer Eye Institute who led gene therapy trials for macular degeneration.

Peter A. Edwards

Peter A. Edwards is a biological chemist at UCLA known for research on lipid metabolism and bile acids, which act as both digestive detergents and hormones.

Peter A. Kollman

Peter A. Kollman, also known as Peter Kollman, was an American computational chemist at UCSF who developed the AMBER force field and simulation software for proteins and nucleic acids.

Peter A. Lawrence

Peter A. Lawrence, also known as Peter Lawrence, is a developmental geneticist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge known for work on Drosophila pattern formation.

Peter A. McNaughton

Peter A. McNaughton is a New Zealand-born sensory neuroscientist and Professor of Pharmacology at King's College London, known for identifying the ion channels behind warmth sensation and chronic pain.