Life and health scientists

Phillip I. Tarr

Phillip I. Tarr is an American pediatric infectious-disease physician-scientist at Washington University School of Medicine, known for research on Shiga toxin–producing E. coli and hemolytic-uremic syndrome.

Phillip P. Toskes

Phillip P. Toskes (1940–2021) was an American gastroenterologist at the University of Florida known for showing the pancreas is required for normal vitamin B12 absorption.

Phillip T. Hawkins

Phillip Hawkins is a British biochemist who studies PI3K signaling enzymes at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2013.

Phillip V. Tobias

Phillip V. Tobias (1925–2012) was a South African palaeoanthropologist and anatomist who held the anatomy chair at the University of the Witwatersrand, led the Sterkfontein excavations, and helped name Homo habilis in 1964.

Phillip W. Berman

Phillip W. Berman is an American virologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Cruz, best known for inventing the AIDSVAX HIV vaccine used in the RV144 trial.

Phillips W. Robbins

Phillips W. Robbins (1930–2026) was an American biochemist and glycobiologist, a National Academy of Sciences member who worked at MIT for nearly 40 years and later at Boston University.

Phin Cohen

Phin Cohen is an American physician and hematologist at Harvard Medical School and the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, known for 1960s research on platelets and thrombocytopenia.

Phoebe A. Rice

Phoebe A. Rice is an American structural biologist and professor at the University of Chicago known for structures of the Mu transposase and DNA-bending protein IHF.

Phuong Chung

Phuong Chung is a research scientist in Drosophila neurogenetics at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus since 2006, in Julie Simpson's lab, known for co-developing Drosophila Brainbow and BrainAligner and circuit studies of fly behaviors.

Phyllis A. Dennery

Phyllis A. Dennery is an American physician-scientist in neonatology and lung biology who chairs pediatrics at Brown University and has studied bronchopulmonary dysplasia for over 35 years.

Phyllis J. Kanki

Phyllis J. Kanki is a virologist and Mary Woodard Lasker Professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, known for characterizing HIV-2 in Senegal.

Phyllis Jean Kanki

Phyllis Jean Kanki is a virologist and Harvard School of Public Health professor known for her Senegal research on HIV-2 and for building HIV treatment capacity in Nigeria.

Phyllis Speiser

Phyllis Speiser is an American pediatric endocrinologist at Northwell Health known for her research on congenital adrenal hyperplasia and for chairing the 2018 Endocrine Society guideline.

Piali Sengupta

Piali Sengupta is an American neuroscientist and geneticist, Professor of Biology at Brandeis University, who studies how the roundworm C. elegans detects odors, temperature, and salt.

Pico Caroni

Pico Caroni, born 1952 in Locarno, Switzerland, is a Swiss neurobiologist at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel known for discovering Nogo-A and for work on synaptic plasticity and learning.

Pier Giuseppe Pelicci

Pier Giuseppe Pelicci, born in 1956, is an Italian molecular oncologist known for research on the Shc gene, p66Shc and longevity, and p53 in stem cells, based at IEO in Milan.

Pier Luigi Zinzani

Pier Luigi Zinzani, born in 1959 in Arenzano, Italy, is an Italian hematologist and full professor at the University of Bologna known for leading trials of new drugs in Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Pier Mannuccio Mannucci

Pier Mannuccio Mannucci is an Italian hematologist and professor emeritus at the University of Milan, known for hemophilia research and the first clinical use of desmopressin.

Pier Paolo Di Fiore

Pier Paolo Di Fiore is an Italian molecular oncologist at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan known for showing how endocytosis regulates cancer signaling.

Pier Paolo Pandolfi

Pier Paolo Pandolfi is an Italian-born cancer geneticist, born in Rome, known for his work on the tumor suppressors PTEN and PML and on acute promyelocytic leukemia.

Pier Vincenzo Piazza

Pier Vincenzo Piazza, born 1961 in Palermo, is a Franco-Italian psychiatrist and Inserm research director who demonstrated individual vulnerability to addiction and developed AEF0117 for cannabis use disorder.

PierFranco Conte

PierFranco Conte is an Italian medical oncologist and full professor at the University of Padova, known for the OlympiAD olaparib trial in BRCA-mutated breast cancer.

Pierluigi Gambetti

Pierluigi Gambetti is an Italian-trained neuropathologist at Case Western Reserve University known for establishing fatal familial insomnia as a prion disease and classifying sporadic prion diseases into molecular subtypes.

Piero Anversa

Piero Anversa is an Italian-trained cardiologist who directed the Center for Regenerative Medicine at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital and is known for his work on cardiac stem cells.

Piero Ruggenenti

Piero Ruggenenti, born in Milan in 1958, is an Italian nephrologist who heads renal medicine at the Mario Negri Institute in Bergamo and led landmark kidney trials.

Piero Sanfilippo

Piero Sanfilippo is an Italian-born biologist who studies RNA regulation and Drosophila neurogenetics, and has been a postdoctoral associate in the Zipursky Lab at UCLA since 2017.

Pierre A. Coulombe

Pierre A. Coulombe is a Canadian-born cell biologist known for linking keratin 14 mutations to the blistering disease epidermolysis bullosa simplex; he chairs Cell & Developmental Biology at Michigan.

Pierre A. Henkart

Pierre A. Henkart is an immunologist at the National Cancer Institute, NIH, known for work on lymphocyte-mediated cytotoxicity and for helping propose the granule exocytosis model.

Pierre Amarenco

Pierre Amarenco is a French neurologist and stroke researcher, Professor at Paris University, who founded the stroke center and SOS-TIA clinic at Bichat hospital in Paris.