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Pierre D. Delmas

Pierre D. Delmas, also published as P. D. Delmas, was a French rheumatologist and bone researcher (1950–2008) at Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, known for bone turnover markers and co-founding the International Osteoporosis Foundation.

Pierre Delbet

Pierre Louis Ernest Delbet (1861–1957) was a French surgeon and professor of clinical surgery in Paris, best known for promoting magnesium chloride as a wound treatment and cancer-prevention advocate.

Pierre Ducimetière

Pierre Ducimetière (1942–2026) was a French cardiovascular epidemiologist at Inserm, called the father of French cardiovascular epidemiology, who led the Paris Prospective Study and published landmark coronary heart disease research.

Pierre Eugène Ménétrier

Pierre Eugène Ménétrier (1859–1935) was a French pathologist, surgeon, oncologist, and medical historian at Paris whose 1888 description of seven autopsy cases founded Ménétrier's disease, a rare protein-losing stomach disorder.

Pierre Fenaux

Pierre Fenaux is a French hematologist and professor at Université Paris Cité who heads the seniors hematology service at Hôpital Saint-Louis and leads the Groupe Francophone des Myélodysplasies.

Pierre Goloubinoff

Pierre Goloubinoff, born 1957 in France, is a biochemist who studies molecular chaperones, known for 1989 Nature papers on GroEL and GroES in Rubisco folding.

Pierre Golstein

Pierre Golstein, born 1939 in Paris, is a French immunologist known for discovering the CTLA-4 protein in 1987 and for work on how cytotoxic T cells kill targets.

Pierre Gönczy

Pierre Gönczy, born 1962, is a cell biologist and full professor at EPFL in Lausanne whose laboratory studies centriole assembly and asymmetric cell division in C. elegans.

Pierre Grabar

Pierre Grabar (1898–1986) was a French biochemist and immunologist, born in Kiev, who co-developed immunoelectrophoretic analysis with C. A. Williams in 1952 and spent most of his career at the Institut Pasteur in Paris.

Pierre Grisel

Pierre Grisel (1869–1959) was a French physician who described Grisel's syndrome in a 1930 paper, non-traumatic rotatory subluxation of the atlantoaxial joint following throat infections or head and neck surgery.

Pierre J. Meunier

Pierre J. Meunier (1936–2016) was a French physician-scientist in rheumatology and bone disease at Lyon, known for establishing quantitative bone histomorphometry and leading landmark osteoporosis trials.

Pierre Joliot

Pierre Joliot (1932–2026), French biologist, grandson of Pierre and Marie Curie; pioneer of photosynthesis research, co-namesake of the Kok–Joliot water-oxidation model, CNRS Gold Medal 1982, Collège de France professor.

Pierre Laurent‐Puig

Pierre Laurent-Puig is a French professor of oncology at Université Paris Cité who showed that KRAS mutations predict resistance to cetuximab in colorectal cancer and pioneered liquid-biopsy RAS testing.

Pierre Léopold

Pierre Léopold is a French developmental biologist at Institut Curie in Paris who studies how organs coordinate growth in the fruit fly, and discovered the hormone Dilp8.

Pierre Maquet

Pierre Maquet, born 1961, is a Belgian neurologist and cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Liège known for neuroimaging studies of sleep, dreaming, and memory consolidation.

Pierre Marie

Pierre Marie (1853–1940) was a French neurologist and favorite pupil of Jean-Martin Charcot who gave the first clinical description of acromegaly and attacked the doctrine that Broca's area is the seat of speech.

Pierre Masson

Pierre Masson (1880–1959) was a French physician and pathologist who held pathology chairs at Strasbourg and the Université de Montréal and devised the trichrome stain for collagen.

Pierre Mollaret

Pierre Mollaret (1898–1987) was a French physician at the Salpêtrière and Pasteur Institute, remembered for Mollaret's meningitis, the Guillain–Mollaret triangle, and first describing brain death.

Pierre Nolf

Pierre Nolf (1873–1953) was a Belgian physician and physiologist at the University of Liège, known for blood coagulation research, who served as Belgium's Minister of Sciences and Arts from 1922 to 1925.

Pierre Pollak

Pierre Pollak, born 1950, is a French neurologist who pioneered deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus for Parkinson's disease, first performed in Grenoble in 1993.

Pierre R. Comizzoli

Pierre R. Comizzoli is a French-trained veterinarian and reproductive biologist at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute since 2002, preserving eggs and sperm of endangered species.

Pierre Robin (French stomatologist)

Pierre Robin (1867–1950) was a French professor of stomatology, trained as a pharmacist and dental surgeon, who coined glossoptosis and designed treatments for Robin sequence.

Pierre Ronco

Pierre Ronco (born 1951 in Paris) is a French nephrologist known for identifying the target antigens of membranous nephropathy and defining the hereditary COL4A1 disease HANAC.

Pierre Théroux

Pierre Théroux (1943–2023) was a Canadian cardiologist at the Montreal Heart Institute and Université de Montréal professor whose trials defined aspirin and heparin use in acute coronary syndromes.

Pierre Tiollais

Pierre Tiollais (1934–2024) was a French physician and molecular biologist at the Institut Pasteur who sequenced the hepatitis B virus genome and developed a recombinant vaccine.

Pierre Vanderhaeghen

Pierre Vanderhaeghen is a Belgian developmental neuroscientist who studies how human cortical neurons are generated and which human-specific genes drive that process, leading a lab at VIB-KU Leuven.

Pierre-Félix Lagrange

Pierre-Félix Lagrange (1857–1928) was a French ophthalmologist and professor of ophthalmology at the University of Bordeaux who devised iridosclerectomy for chronic glaucoma, the Opération de Lagrange.

Pierre-François Bougnères

Pierre-François Bougnères is a French pediatric endocrinologist and Inserm research director at Paris hospitals, known for New England Journal of Medicine trials in type 1 diabetes and adrenoleukodystrophy.

Pierre‐Marie Lledo

Pierre-Marie Lledo is a French neuroscientist who chairs the Department of Neuroscience at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, known for work on adult neurogenesis and gut–brain signaling.

Piet A. J. de Boer

Piet A. J. de Boer is a microbiologist and professor at Case Western Reserve University known for work on how Escherichia coli selects and builds its division site.