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Peter G. Gillespie

Peter G. Gillespie, who publishes as Peter G. Barr-Gillespie, is an American sensory neuroscientist at OHSU's Vollum Institute known for work on inner-ear hair-cell mechanotransduction.

Peter G. Pappas

Peter G. Pappas is an infectious-diseases physician and medical mycology researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, known for leading the IDSA candidiasis guidelines and the Mycoses Study Group.

Peter G. Wolynes

Peter G. Wolynes, born 1953, is an American theoretical chemist at Rice University known for the first analytical theory of protein folding and the random first-order transition theory of glasses.

Peter Ganz

Peter Ganz is a cardiologist and Professor of Medicine at UCSF who directs vascular research at San Francisco General and pioneered endothelial biology and proteomics.

Peter Garred

Peter Garred is a Danish clinical immunologist and professor at Rigshospitalet and the University of Copenhagen, known for research on mannose-binding lectin and ficolins in innate immunity.

Peter George Ingle Stovin

Peter George Ingle Stovin was a British pathologist, born in Jinan, China, who co-described Hughes–Stovin syndrome in 1959 and worked on cardiac transplant pathology at Royal Papworth Hospital.

Peter Goadsby

Peter J. Goadsby is an Australian-born neurologist and headache researcher at King's College London whose CGRP work led to new migraine drugs; he shared the 2021 Brain Prize.

Peter Godfrey‐Faussett

Peter Godfrey-Faussett is an infectious-diseases physician-scientist and Emeritus Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, known for tuberculosis and HIV research in Zambia and South Africa.

Peter Goldman

Peter Goldman (1929–2017) was an American clinical pharmacologist and Harvard's Maxwell Finland Professor who pioneered the study of how gut bacteria metabolize drugs, notably sulfasalazine.

Peter Grant (evolutionary biologist)

Peter Grant, born 1936, is a British evolutionary biologist at Princeton known for studying Darwin's finches in the Galápagos with his wife Rosemary since 1973.

Peter Gruss

Peter Gruss (Peter Gruß), born 1949, is a German developmental biologist known for Pax gene research and president of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft from 2002 to 2014.

Peter H. Bennett

Peter H. Bennett is an American diabetes epidemiologist who began the landmark Pima Indian diabetes studies in 1965 and helped shape WHO diagnostic criteria adopted in 1980.

Peter H. Byers

Peter H. Byers, also published as Peter Byers, is an American medical geneticist at the University of Washington known for research on inherited connective-tissue disorders.

Peter H. Fishman

Peter H. Fishman is an NIH biochemist at NINDS whose research established how gangliosides are synthesized and reported the first human disease of defective ganglioside biosynthesis.

Peter H. Forsham

Peter H. Forsham was an American endocrinologist who directed UCSF's Metabolic Research Unit from 1952 to 1984, pioneering diabetes research and glucagon's role in diabetic ketoacidosis.

Peter H. Hackett

Peter H. Hackett is an American physician specializing in high-altitude medicine, based in Telluride, Colorado, known for altitude illness research and field medicine in Nepal and on Denali.

Peter H. Krammer

Peter H. Krammer (P. H. Krammer), born in 1946, is a German immunologist at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg known for discovering the CD95 (APO-1/Fas) death-receptor system.

Peter H. Raven

Peter H. Raven (1936–2026) was an American botanist and evolutionary biologist who led the Missouri Botanical Garden for 39 years and, with Paul Ehrlich, coined the term "coevolution" in 1964.

Peter H. Schiller

Peter H. Schiller (1931–2023) was an American visual neuroscientist who spent his career at MIT, establishing the roles of the ON and OFF channels of vision.

Peter H. Schur

Peter H. Schur is an American rheumatologist and clinical immunologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for linking anti-DNA antibodies and falling complement to lupus disease activity.

Peter H. Seeburg

Peter H. Seeburg (1944–2016) was a German molecular biologist and neuroscientist who pioneered cloning human hormone genes, then helped found molecular neurobiology through work on GABA-A and glutamate receptors and RNA editing.

Peter H. Sönksen

Peter H. Sönksen is a British physician-scientist in endocrinology and diabetes, known for a 1989 growth hormone trial and for leading the GH-2000 anti-doping test group.

Peter H. Wiernik

Peter H. Wiernik is an American medical oncologist known for leukemia research, including the 1997 retinoic acid trial for acute promyelocytic leukemia and early clinical studies of paclitaxel.

Peter Hagoort

Peter Hagoort, born in 1954, is a Dutch cognitive neuroscientist known for the Memory-Unification-Control model of language and for directing the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.

Peter Hayes (hepatologist)

Peter Hayes, in full Peter Clive Hayes, is a British hepatologist, Professor of Hepatology at the University of Edinburgh, known for work on portal hypertension and acute liver failure.

Peter Hegemann

Peter Hegemann, born 1954 in Münster, is a German biophysicist at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin who discovered channelrhodopsins, the light-gated ion channels behind optogenetics, and shared the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Peter Herrlich

Peter Herrlich, born 1940 in Munich, is a German molecular biologist known for work on signal transduction, the UV response, and CD44 splice variants in tumor metastasis.

Peter Hess (biophysicist)

Peter Hess was an ion-channel biophysicist at Yale and Harvard Medical School whose 1984 Nature paper explained how calcium channels select and conduct ions, using single-channel recordings of cardiac cells.

Peter Hillmen

Peter Hillmen (P. Hillmen) is a British hematologist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Leeds known for the eculizumab trials that led to PNH approval in 2007.

Peter Hotez

Peter J. Hotez (born 1958) is an American vaccine scientist and pediatrician who leads the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.