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Peter Tugwell

Peter Tugwell is a Canadian rheumatologist and clinical epidemiologist at the University of Ottawa, known for rheumatoid arthritis trials, co-founding the Cochrane Collaboration, and health equity in evidence synthesis.

Peter Turnbaugh

Peter Turnbaugh is an American microbiome researcher and professor at UCSF known for showing that the gut microbiome of obese mice transmits increased energy harvest.

Peter Tyack

Peter Tyack is a behavioral ecologist who studies whale and dolphin communication and is Professor of Marine Mammal Biology at the University of St Andrews.

Peter Tyrer

Peter Tyrer is a British community psychiatrist, Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London, who chaired the WHO group revising personality disorder classification for ICD-11 and developed nidotherapy.

Peter V. Kharchenko

Peter V. Kharchenko is a computational biologist and Gilbert S. Omenn Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, known for single-cell RNA sequencing tools like Conos and velocyto.

Peter Valent

Peter Valent is an Austrian hematologist and physician-scientist at the Medical University of Vienna whose work on mastocytosis underlies the WHO classification of mast cell diseases.

Peter Vandenabeele

Peter Vandenabeele is a Belgian cell death researcher, senior full professor at Ghent University who leads the Cell Death and Inflammation Unit at VIB-UGent, studying necroptosis and inflammation.

Peter von Hippel

Peter H. von Hippel is an American molecular biologist and biophysical chemist, emeritus professor at the University of Oregon, known for kinetic studies of transcription and DNA replication.

Peter W. Andrews

Peter W. Andrews, also known as P. W. Andrews, is a biologist at the University of Sheffield known for characterizing stem cell surface markers like SSEA3 and TRA-1-60.

Peter W. Baas

Peter W. Baas is a cell biologist and neuroscientist, professor at Drexel University College of Medicine since 2000, known for showing how microtubules are organized in neurons.

Peter W. Gage

Peter W. Gage (1937–2005) was a New Zealand-born Australian membrane physiologist and neuroscientist who studied ion channels at UNSW and the Australian National University and helped found the biotechnology company Biotron.

Peter W. Gething

Peter W. Gething is an Australian-based epidemiologist and geospatial modeller of malaria who co-heads the Malaria Atlas Project and is a professor at Curtin University and The Kids Research Institute Australia in Perth.

Peter W. Halligan

Peter W. Halligan is an Irish neuropsychologist and Honorary Professor at Cardiff University, known for work on visual neglect and malingering, who served as Chief Scientific Adviser for Wales from 2018 to 2022.

Peter W. Hochachka

Peter W. Hochachka (1937–2002) was a Canadian zoologist at the University of British Columbia who founded adaptational biochemistry, the study of how animals survive low oxygen.

Peter W. Kalivas

Peter W. Kalivas is an American neuroscientist at the Medical University of South Carolina who established glutamate signaling as a central mechanism of drug addiction and relapse.

Peter W. Lampert

Peter W. Lampert (1929–1986) was a German-born American neuropathologist who chaired pathology at UCSD from 1979 until his death, using electron microscopy to study demyelination and viral disease.

Peter W. Stacpoole

Peter W. Stacpoole is a physician-scientist and professor at the University of Florida who has researched dichloroacetate since 1969, leading trials in lactic acidosis and mitochondrial disease.

Peter W.F. Wilson

Peter W.F. Wilson is an American cardiologist and cardiovascular epidemiologist at Emory University whose Framingham work produced the most widely validated heart disease risk prediction rule.

Peter Walter

Peter Walter is a German-born biochemist and cell biologist known for discovering the signal recognition particle and defining the unfolded protein response, honored with the 2014 Lasker and 2018 Breakthrough Prizes.

Peter Weisbeek

Peter J. Weisbeek, born 1943 in Groningen, is a Dutch molecular biologist and professor of molecular genetics at Utrecht University, known for chloroplast protein targeting research.

Peter Wilf

Peter Wilf is an American paleobotanist and professor of geosciences at Penn State who studies fossil plants and ancient climates, with long-term fieldwork in Argentine Patagonia.

Peter William Jack Rigby

Peter William Jack Rigby, known as Peter Rigby, is a British molecular biologist who studies gene regulation in embryonic development and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2010.

Peter Wright (structural biologist)

Peter Wright is a structural biologist and NMR spectroscopist at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for showing that intrinsically disordered proteins fold as they bind their targets.

Peter Y. Chou

Peter Y. Chou is a protein chemist who, with Gerald D. Fasman at Brandeis University, published the 1974 Chou–Fasman method, an early and widely cited protein structure prediction approach.

Peter Zimetbaum

Peter J. Zimetbaum is an American cardiac electrophysiologist who directs clinical cardiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and is the Richard and Susan Smith Professor of Cardiology at Harvard Medical School.

Petr Broz

Petr Broz (Petr Brož) is an immunologist and Full Professor at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, known for work on inflammasome activation and pyroptosis during bacterial infection.

Petr Cejka

Petr Cejka is a molecular biologist leading the Recombination Mechanisms group at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Bellinzona, Switzerland, studying DNA repair by homologous recombination.

Petter Brodin

Petter Brodin (born 1982) is a Swedish pediatric immunologist, professor of pediatric immunology at Karolinska Institutet and Garfield Weston Chair of Neonatology at Imperial College London.

Peyton Rous

Francis Peyton Rous was an American cancer virologist who discovered the first tumor-inducing virus, Rous sarcoma virus, in chickens in 1911, winning the 1966 Nobel Prize 55 years later.

Phạm Ngọc Thạch

Phạm Ngọc Thạch (1909–1968) was a Vietnamese physician, tuberculosis specialist, and diplomat who served twice as Minister of Health of North Vietnam and developed a tuberculosis vaccine in 1950.