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Piet Borst

Piet Borst, born 1934 in Amsterdam, is a Dutch physician-biochemist who directed the Netherlands Cancer Institute and is known for mitochondrial DNA, trypanosome immune evasion, and P-glycoprotein knockout studies, winning the 2023 Lasker-Koshland Award.

Piet C. de Groen

Piet C. de Groen is a professor in the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition at the University of Minnesota Medical School, trained at Nijmegen and Mayo Clinic.

Piet Herdewijn

Piet Herdewijn is a Belgian chemist-bologist, born in Aalst in 1954, an emeritus professor of medicinal chemistry at KU Leuven's Rega Institute known for antiviral nucleosides and xeno nucleic acids.

Pieter C. Smits

Pieter C. Smits is a Dutch interventional cardiologist, Director of Interventional Cardiology at Maasstad Hospital in Rotterdam, and lead investigator of the COMPARE and MASTER DAPT stent trials.

Pieter C. Wensink

Pieter C. Wensink was an American molecular biologist and professor emeritus of biochemistry at Brandeis University, known for mapping Drosophila chromosomes and dissecting sex-specific gene regulation; he died in 2012.

Pieter Cullis

Pieter Cullis is a Canadian biochemist and professor at the University of British Columbia whose lab developed ionizable lipids that made lipid nanoparticles workable for delivering mRNA drugs.

Pieter De Somer

Pieter De Somer was a Belgian physician and biologist who founded the Rega Institute in Leuven and served as the first lay rector of KU Leuven.

Pieter R. Cullis

Pieter R. Cullis is a Canadian biophysicist and UBC professor whose lipid nanoparticle drug delivery technology underlies the siRNA drug Onpattro and the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 mRNA vaccine.

Pieter R. Roelfsema

Pieter R. Roelfsema is a Dutch neuroscientist who leads the Vision and Cognition group at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam, studying visual perception.

Pieter Rein ten Wolde

Pieter Rein ten Wolde (born 1970) is a Dutch biophysicist who leads the Biochemical Networks group at AMOLF and is a professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Pieter Sonneveld

Pieter Sonneveld is a Dutch professor of hematology at Erasmus MC Rotterdam, head of hematology from 2011 to 2017, known for the daratumumab trials CASTOR, CASSIOPEIA, and PERSEUS and for founding the European Myeloma Network.

Pietro De Camilli

Pietro De Camilli is an Italian-born American neuroscientist at Yale School of Medicine and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, known for work on synaptic vesicle recycling and Stiff-Man syndrome.

Pietro Lampertico

Pietro Lampertico is an Italian hepatologist and Full Professor of Gastroenterology at the University of Milan, known for clinical research on hepatitis B and hepatitis D.

Pietro Tullio

Pietro Tullio (1881–1941) was an Italian physiologist who directed the Laboratory of Experimental Physiology in Bologna and gave his name to the Tullio phenomenon, sound-induced vertigo.

Pim J. de Feyter

Pim J. de Feyter is a Dutch cardiologist and emeritus professor at Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, known for emergency angioplasty in unstable angina and for advancing coronary CT angiography.

Pina Fratamico

Pina M. Fratamico is an American food-safety microbiologist at the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Philadelphia, known for rapid detection methods for E. coli O157:H7.

Ping He

Ping He (何平) is a plant scientist who studies plant innate immunity in Arabidopsis, now a professor at the University of Michigan after nearly a decade at Texas A&M.

Ping-Chih Ho

Ping-Chih Ho is a Taiwanese cancer immunologist and full professor at the University of Lausanne, known for showing that tumor cells evade immunity through metabolic competition.

Pinuccia Valagussa

Pinuccia Valagussa (died 2024) was an Italian oncology researcher and statistician at the Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori in Milan who co-designed the landmark CMF breast cancer trials.

Pío del Río Hortega

Pío del Río Hortega (1882–1945) was a Spanish neurohistologist who discovered microglia and oligodendroglia, developed the silver carbonate stain, and was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize.

Piotr K Kopinski

Piotr K Kopinski (also spelled Kopiński) is a Polish mitochondrial-genetics researcher and physician-scientist in training who studied mitochondria-to-nucleus signaling in Douglas C. Wallace's laboratory at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Piotr P. Słonimski

Piotr P. Słonimski (1922–2009) was a Polish-born French molecular geneticist who founded mitochondrial genetics, working on yeast, and directed the CNRS Centre de génétique moléculaire at Gif-sur-Yvette.

Piotr Ponikowski

Piotr Ponikowski is a Polish cardiologist and rector of Wroclaw Medical University known for intravenous iron trials in heart failure and chairing the 2016 ESC heart failure guidelines.

Piotr Sicinski

Piotr Sicinski, also known as Piotr Siciński, is a Polish-born cancer biologist at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber whose cyclin knockout mice helped set the stage for CDK4/6 inhibitor cancer drugs.

Pirjo Nuutila

Pirjo Nuutila is a Finnish physician-scientist and professor who leads diabetes and obesity research at the Turku PET Centre, working in metabolic PET imaging since the early 1990s.

Piro Lito

Piro Lito is a physician-scientist and thoracic medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center whose research on KRAS-mutant cancers helped bring the first mutant-selective KRAS drugs to patients.

Pirulla

Pirulla, also written Pirula, is the online name of Paulo Miranda Nascimento, a Brazilian biologist, paleontologist, and science YouTuber whose channel passed 1 million subscribers in 2022.

Piyush Gupta

Piyush B. Gupta is a cancer biologist who leads a lab at the Whitehead Institute and MIT, known for identifying salinomycin as a selective killer of breast cancer stem cells.

PJ Fialkow

Philip J. Fialkow (1934–1996) was an American physician-scientist at the University of Washington, dean of its medical school, who established the clonal origin of human cancers using X-chromosome mosaicism.

Placide Mbala‐Kingebeni

Placide Mbala-Kingebeni, also published as Placide Mbala, is a Congolese physician and virologist who directs research at INRB in Kinshasa and identified mpox clade Ib in 2024.