Life and health scientists

Peter M.A. Calverley

Peter M.A. Calverley, born 1949, is a British pulmonologist and Emeritus Professor of Respir Medicine at Liverpool, known for the TORCH and TIOSPIR COPD trials.

Peter Malfertheiner (born 1950 in Kastelruth, Italy) is a German gastroenterologist known for Helicobacter pylori research, first-authoring the Maastricht V consensus report, and chairing gastroenterology at Magdeburg from 1995 to 2016.

Peter Margolis

Peter Margolis is an American pediatric health-systems researcher at Stanford, elected to the National Academy of Medicine, known for building learning health networks like ImproveCareNow.

Peter Marler

Peter Marler (1928–2014) was a British-born American ethologist whose experiments showed songbirds learn their songs, established the auditory template hypothesis, and put animal communication on an experimental footing.

Peter McCulloch

Peter McCulloch is a Scottish surgeon and Professor of Surgical Science and Practice at the University of Oxford, known for the IDEAL framework for evaluating surgical innovation and for patient-safety research.

Peter McL. Black

Peter McL. Black, also known as Peter M. Black, is a Canadian-born neurosurgeon and brain tumor researcher who is Franc D. Ingraham Professor of Neurosurgery, Emeritus, at Harvard.

Peter Medawar

Peter Brian Medawar was a British immunologist and zoologist, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1915, who shared the 1960 Nobel Prize for discovering acquired immunological tolerance.

Peter Mitchell (biochemist)

Peter Mitchell (1920–1992) was a British biochemist who proposed the chemiosmotic theory, explaining how cells use proton gradients to make ATP, winning the 1978 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Peter Model

Peter Model (1933–2017) was a molecular geneticist at The Rockefeller University who studied bacteriophage f1, protein secretion, and the phage shock protein response, and contributed to phage display.

Peter Mombaerts

Peter Mombaerts is a Belgian-born neuroscientist who uses mouse genetics to study olfactory wiring, and received the 1997 Presidential Early Career Award at Rockefeller University.

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Peter Mühlens

Peter Mühlens (1874–1943) was a German tropical physician and hygienist who directed the Hamburg tropical institute from 1933 and introduced major antiparasitic drugs into practice.

Peter Mündel

Peter Mündel, often published as Peter Mundel, is a German-trained nephrologist known for podocyte biology research, who led a Harvard lab and became Goldfinch Bio's chief scientific officer in 2018.

Peter N. Devreotes

Peter N. Devreotes is an American cell biologist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine known for work on signal transduction, gradient sensing, and chemotaxis.

Peter N. Goodfellow

Peter N. Goodfellow is a geneticist who pinpointed SRY, the Y-chromosome gene that determines testis development, and later led discovery research at SmithKline Beecham and GlaxoSmithKline.

Peter N. Le Souëf

Peter N. Le Souëf is an Australian pediatric respiratory physician and Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Western Australia, known for research on childhood asthma.

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Peter N. T. Wells

Peter N. T. Wells, full name Peter Neil Temple Wells, was a British medical physicist who pioneered ultrasound for diagnosis and surgery and founded Doppler blood-flow measurement.

Peter Novick

Peter J. Novick is an American cell biologist, endowed professor at UC San Diego, known for dissecting the yeast secretory pathway and identifying Sec4, the first Rab protein controlling secretion.

Peter Olson

Peter Olson is an American geophysicist at Johns Hopkins University who studies the dynamics of Earth's mantle and core, including the geodynamo that generates the magnetic field.

Peter Openshaw (immunologist)

Peter Openshaw is a British respiratory physician and mucosal immunologist, Professor of Experimental Medicine at Imperial College London, known for his work on RSV and influenza immunity.

Peter P. Nawroth

Peter P. Nawroth is a German physician-scientist known for research on diabetic late complications, especially methylglyoxal, who held a Heidelberg chair from 2001 to 2020.

Peter Palese

Peter Palese is an American virologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai who pioneered influenza reverse genetics and pursues a universal flu vaccine.

Peter Parham

Peter Parham is a British-born immunogeneticist at Stanford University School of Medicine who defined the molecular basis of HLA class I polymorphism and pioneered the KIR receptor field.

Peter Perlmann

Peter Perlmann (1919–2005) was a Swedish immunologist at Stockholm University's Wenner-Gren Institute, known for developing the ELISA test, discovering ADCC, and researching the Pf155 malaria antigen.

Peter Philip Reese

Peter Philip Reese is an American transplant nephrologist and epidemiologist, a University of Pennsylvania professor who won the 2011 Presidential Early Career Award for transplant research.

Peter Piot

Peter Piot, born 1949 in Louvain, Belgium, is a physician-scientist who co-discovered the Ebola virus in 1976, documented heterosexual AIDS in Africa, and served as founding Executive Director of UNAIDS from 1995 to 2008.

Peter Quail

Peter H. Quail is a plant molecular biologist, Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, known for phytochrome research and his 1998 discovery of the transcription factor PIF3.

Peter R. Crane

Peter R. Crane, also known as Peter Crane, is a British botanist and paleobotanist born in 1954 who studies the origin and early fossil history of flowering plants.

Peter R. Galle

Peter R. Galle is a German hepatologist who directs the I. Medical Clinic at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and chaired the 2018 EASL liver cancer guidelines.

Peter R. Holt

Peter R. Holt (1930–2024) was a Berlin-born American gastroenterologist known for Whipple's disease research and colorectal cancer prevention, and a Columbia University professor of medicine.