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Peter Carmeliet

Peter Carmeliet is a Belgian physician-scientist known for angiogenesis research and endothelial cell metabolism, leading a laboratory at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology.

Peter Cherepanov

Peter Cherepanov is a British-based molecular virologist and structural biologist at Imperial College London and the Francis Crick Institute who studies how HIV integrates into host DNA.

Peter Collins (cardiologist)

Peter Collins is a British clinical cardiologist, Professor at Imperial College London and Royal Brompton Hospital, known internationally for research on heart disease in women.

Peter Cresswell (scientist)

Peter Cresswell is a British-born immunologist at Yale School of Medicine whose laboratory worked out how MHC class I and II peptide complexes are assembled.

Peter Currie (biologist)

Peter Currie, also published as Peter D. Currie, is an Australian developmental and stem cell biologist who directs research at the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University.

Peter D. Adams

Peter D. Adams is a cancer biologist who studies the epigenetics of aging and directs the Cancer Genome and Epigenetics Program at Sanford Burnham Prebys in La Jolla, California.

Peter D. Crompton

Peter D. Crompton is a physician-scientist in malaria immunology who is a Senior Investigator and chief of the Malaria Infection Biology and Immunity Section at NIAID in Rockville, Maryland.

Peter D. Karp

Peter D. Karp is an American bioinformaticist and artificial-intelligence researcher at SRI International in Menlo Park, California, known for the BioCyc, EcoCyc, and MetaCyc pathway databases and Pathway Tools software.

Peter D. Keightley

Peter D. Keightley is an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Edinburgh who estimates spontaneous mutation rates and their effects on fitness, elected a Royal Society Fellow in 2014.

Peter D. Kwong

Peter D. Kwong is an American structural biologist who determined the first atomic structures of HIV gp120, designed the DS-Cav1 RSV immunogen, and leads Columbia's Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center.

Peter D. Reaven

Peter D. Reaven is an American physician-scientist in endocrinology who directs the Diabetes Program at the Phoenix VA Health Care System and led major VA diabetes trials.

Peter D. Sly

Peter D. Sly is an Australian pediatric respiratory physician and children's environmental health researcher at the University of Queensland, awarded the Order of Australia in 2016 for his research.

Peter D. Sun

Peter D. Sun, also known as Peter Sun, is a structural immunologist at NIAID, NIH, in Rockville, Maryland, known for structural studies of natural killer cell receptors and HIV-1 release.

Peter D. Wood

Peter D. Wood (1929–2011) was a British-born American researcher of lipid metabolism at Stanford whose controlled trials established how exercise, dieting, and moderate alcohol intake change blood cholesterol.

Peter Dallos

Peter Dallos (Dallos Péter, born 1934) is a Hungarian-born American auditory physiologist, John Evans Professor of Neuroscience Emeritus at Northwestern, whose work identified prestin, the motor protein powering cochlear amplification.

Peter Daszak

Peter Daszak, British disease ecologist, PhD University of East London 1993; former president of EcoHealth Alliance, now leads Nature Health Global; known for chytridiomycosis research, bat coronavirus NIH grants, WHO COVID origins probe, and 2025 HHS debarment.

Peter David Gluckman

Peter David Gluckman, born in 1949, is a New Zealand medical researcher who developed the first effective treatment for brain damage at birth and served as the country's first Chief Science Advisor.

Peter Dirks

Peter B. Dirks is a Canadian neurosurgeon and cancer stem-cell biologist at SickKids in Toronto, best known for identifying cancer stem cells in human brain tumors in 2003 and 2004.

Peter Duesberg

Peter Duesberg, born Peter Heinz Hermann Duesberg, was a German-born molecular biologist at UC Berkeley who identified the first viral cancer gene in 1970 and later disputed that HIV causes AIDS.

Peter E. Lipsky

Peter E. Lipsky is an American immunologist and rheumatologist known for the anti-TNF trials that established infliximab plus methotrexate for rheumatoid arthritis, and for B-cell research in lupus.

Peter E. Newburger

Peter E. Newburger is an American pediatric hematologist-immunologist at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, known for research on chronic granulomatous disease and severe chronic neutropenia.

Peter E. Nielsen

Peter E. Nielsen (Peter Eigil Nielsen), born 1951, is a professor at the University of Copenhagen who invented the DNA mimic peptide nucleic acid (PNA) in 1991.

Peter Ekblom

Peter Ekblom is a developmental biologist known for research on laminin and epithelial tissue formation during kidney organogenesis, carried out at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory in Tübingen.

Peter Elsbach

Peter Elsbach is a physician-scientist at New York University School of Medicine whose research, from 1959 into the 2000s, centered on how phagocytic white blood cells kill bacteria, especially the bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein.

Peter F. Barnes

Peter F. Barnes is an American physician-scientist in infectious diseases known for tuberculosis research, including documenting the HIV-driven resurgence of tuberculosis and showing it spread mainly at Los Angeles homeless shelters.

Peter F. Cohn

Peter F. Cohn is a cardiologist and professor at Stony Brook University whose work on silent myocardial ischemia and noninvasive testing shaped post-infarction risk stratification.

Peter F. Leadlay

Peter F. Leadlay (P F Leadlay) is a British biochemist at Cambridge known for his work on polyketide synthases, the enzyme assembly lines that build antibiotics.

Peter Fraser

Peter Fraser is a molecular biologist who studies how 3D chromatin folding controls gene expression, having led the Nuclear Dynamics program at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge.

Peter Friedl

Peter Friedl is a cell biologist who holds the chair for Microscopical Imaging of the Cell at Radboud University in Nijmegen, known for discovering collective cancer cell invasion.

Peter G. Davis

Peter G. Davis is an Australian neonatologist and researcher at the Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne who has led more than 20 trials of newborn respiratory support.