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Phil Gold

Phil Gold, born in Montreal in 1936, is a Canadian physician-scientist who co-discovered the tumor marker CEA in 1965, the basis of a widely used cancer blood test.

Phil Skolnick

Phil Skolnick is a neuroscientist and pharmacologist known for benzodiazepine research, the NMDA receptor hypothesis of depression, and intranasal naloxone; he directed NIDA's medications-development division from 2010 to 2017.

Philip A. Beachy

Philip A. Beachy is an American developmental biologist at Stanford University whose research established how the Hedgehog signaling pathway patterns embryos and can be targeted in cancer.

Philip A. Cole

Philip A. Cole is an American chemical biologist, a professor at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital since 2017, known for co-developing expressed protein ligation.

Philip A. Pizzo

Philip A. Pizzo, also known as Philip Pizzo, is an American pediatric oncologist known for defining fever management in children with cancer and for leading Stanford's medical school.

Philip A. Poole‐Wilson

Philip A. Poole-Wilson (1943–2009) was a British cardiologist and British Heart Foundation professor at Imperial College London who chaired the COMET trial and helped make beta-blockers standard in heart failure.

Philip A. Wigge

Philip A. Wigge is a plant scientist who studies how plants sense temperature, professor at the University of Potsdam and department head at the Leibniz Institute of Horticultural Sciences since 2018.

Philip A. Wolf

Philip A. Wolf is an American neurologist and epidemiologist who joined the Framingham Heart Study in 1967 as its first neurologist and served as principal investigator from 1989 to 2014.

Philip Ashton-Rickardt

Philip Ashton-Rickardt is an immunologist known for defining how long-lived memory CD8 T cells arise from cytotoxic effector cells, formerly a professor at the University of Chicago and Imperial College London.

Philip Bard

Philip Bard, born Archibald Philip Bard (1898–1977), was an American physiologist at Johns Hopkins known for the Cannon–Bard theory of emotion and for locating rage in the hypothalamus.

Philip Bejon

Philip Bejon is a clinician scientist and Oxford professor of tropical medicine known for malaria vaccine trials, including RTS,S, and spatial epidemiology of malaria in coastal Kenya.

Philip Benfey

Philip N. Benfey was an American plant developmental biologist at Duke University who showed how root cells acquire their positions and fates through the genes SHORT-ROOT and SCARECROW.

Philip Boyd (oceanographer)

Philip W. Boyd is a biogeochemical oceanographer and professor at the University of Tasmania, known for leading the 2000 Southern Ocean iron fertilization experiment SOIREE.

Philip C. Bevilacqua

Philip C. Bevilacqua is an American RNA biochemist and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Pennsylvania State University, known for ribozyme catalysis and RNA folding research.

Philip C. Hanawalt

Philip C. Hanawalt, also cited as Philip Hanawalt, is an American molecular biologist at Stanford University who co-discovered nucleotide excision repair in 1963 and transcription-coupled repair.

Philip C. Hopewell

Philip C. Hopewell is an American physician-scientist at the University of California, San Francisco, who has led tuberculosis treatment, research, and international control efforts since 1973.

Philip C. J. Donoghue

Philip C. J. Donoghue is a British paleontologist, Professor of Palaeobiology at the University of Bristol, and a Fellow of the Royal Society known for molecular palaeobiology.

Philip C. Wong

Philip C. Wong is a professor of pathology and neuroscience at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine whose laboratory studies TDP-43 in Alzheimer's disease and ALS-FTD, including a 2024 presymptomatic fluid biomarker.

Philip Coffino

Philip Coffino (P. Coffino) is a molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at UCSF, known for genetic analysis of cAMP signaling and discovering ubiquitin-independent proteasomal degradation of ornithine decarboxylase.

Philip Cohen (biochemist)

Philip Cohen is a British biochemist at the University of Dundee, knighted in 1998, whose work established protein phosphorylation as a central mechanism of cellular regulation.

Philip Cole

Philip Cole is an American epidemiologist at Harvard whose 1971 study established smoking as a cause of bladder cancer and who later argued for tobacco harm reduction.

Philip D. Darney

Philip D. Darney, born 1943, is an American physician-scientist in contraception and reproductive health, a UCSF distinguished professor emeritus and founder of the Bixby Center.

Philip D. Gingerich

Philip D. Gingerich is an American vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Michigan known for fossil evidence of whale origins, primate origins, and the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum.

Philip D. Greenberg

Philip D. Greenberg is an American immunologist and oncologist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle whose laboratory developed T cell receptor engineering for cancer therapy.

Philip D. Stahl

Philip D. Stahl is an American cell biologist at Washington University in St. Louis known for discovering the macrophage mannose receptor and for work on receptor-mediated endocytosis.

Philip E. Cryer

Philip E. Cryer (1940–2024) was an American endocrinologist at Washington University in St. Louis whose research on glucose counterregulation led him to discover hypoglycemia-associated autonomic failure, also called Cryer Syndrome.

Philip E. Dawson

Philip E. Dawson is a protein chemist and professor at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for pioneering native chemical ligation, a key method for chemically synthesizing proteins.

Philip E. Nelson

Philip E. Nelson (born 1934) is an American food scientist at Purdue University who developed large-scale aseptic food storage and won the 2007 World Food Prize.

Philip Edward Smith

Philip Edward Smith (1884–1970) was an American endocrinologist and anatomist who established the pituitary gland's hormonal control of growth, the thyroid, and reproduction, and taught anatomy at Columbia.

Philip F. Halloran

Philip F. Halloran is a Canadian transplant immunologist and nephrologist at the University of Alberta, known for discovering antibody-mediated rejection and creating the MMDx molecular biopsy system.