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Pura Muñoz-Cánoves

Pura Muñoz-Cánoves (born 1962) is a Spanish cell biologist who studies how skeletal muscle regenerates and why it fails in aging and muscular dystrophies, now at Altos Labs.

Purnell W. Choppin

Purnell W. Choppin (1929–2021) was an American virologist who led Rockefeller University's Laboratory of Virology and served as president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Purvesh Khatri

Purvesh Khatri is an American computational medicine researcher and systems immunologist at Stanford University, known for blood transcriptomic signatures of sepsis and for co-founding Inflammatix, whose TriVerity sepsis test the FDA cleared in 2025.

Q. Richard Lu

Q. Richard Lu, also known as Richard Lu, is a researcher in cancer epigenetics known for discovering Olig1 and Olig2 and for work on brain tumors and myelin repair.

Qais Al‐Awqati

Qais Al-Awqati is a Professor of Medicine and of Physiology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, known for identifying the kidney's two intercalated cell types and hensin, whose deletion causes distal renal tubular acidosis.

Qi Sun

Qi Sun is a physician-scientist at Harvard and Brigham and Women's Hospital known for research linking diet, environmental exposures, and biomarkers to type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Qi‐Long Ying

Qi-Long Ying is a stem cell biologist and professor at the University of Southern California known for defining embryonic stem cell self-renewal conditions and deriving the first rat embryonic stem cells.

Qiang Yu

Qiang Yu is a Singapore-based cancer biologist who leads the Laboratory of Precision Cancer Medicine at A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore, known for discovering DZNep.

Qiang Zhou

Qiang Zhou is a molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology at UC Berkeley, known for work on P-TEFb and HIV transcription.

Qiangjun Zhou

Qiangjun Zhou is a structural biologist and assistant professor at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, known for atomic-resolution structures of the SNARE, synaptotagmin, and complexin complexes.

Qiao Zhou

Qiao Zhou, known as Joe Zhou, is an American stem cell biologist at Weill Cornell Medicine known for reprogramming pancreatic cells into insulin-producing beta cells.

Qiaolin Deng

Qiaolin Deng is a developmental biologist at Karolinska Institutet who develops single-cell RNA sequencing methods and studies how maternal diabetes and PCOS affect offspring health.

Qibin Qi

Qibin Qi is a molecular and genetic epidemiologist and professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, known for gene–diet interaction studies of obesity and diabetes.

Qifa Zhang (张启发)

Qifa Zhang (张启发), born 1953, is a Chinese plant geneticist at Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan known for rice functional genomics and the Green Super Rice concept.

Qijing Zhang

Qijing Zhang is a veterinary molecular microbiologist at Iowa State University known for research on Campylobacter and antimicrobial resistance, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.

Qing Nie

Qing Nie is a computational and systems biologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Irvine, known for CellChat, an open-source tool inferring cell-cell communication from single-cell data.

Qing Yi

Qing Yi is a Chinese-born American medical immunologist who identified tumor-eradicating Th9 cells and leads translational myeloma immunotherapy research as a chaired professor at Houston Methodist since 2018.

Qing Yin Zheng

Qing Yin Zheng is a deafness geneticist who holds associate professorships in otolaryngology and genetics at Case Western Reserve University, studying mouse models of inherited human hearing loss.

Qingbo Xu

Qingbo Xu is a cardiovascular scientist known for work on heat-shock protein antibodies and stem cells in atherosclerosis, holding a BHF chair in London since 2006.

Qiufu Ma

Qiufu Ma (马秋富) is a Chinese neurobiologist known for identifying neurogenin, mapping spinal pain circuits, and establishing a neuroanatomical basis for electroacupuncture; he joined Westlake University in 2022.

Quanyin Hu

Quanyin Hu is a drug delivery and nanomedicine researcher who engineers platelets and cell derivatives as vehicles for cancer immunotherapy, leading the CIPT Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Pharmacy.

Quarraisha Abdool Karim

Quarraisha Abdool Karim is a South African infectious diseases epidemiologist who co-founded CAPRISA in Durban and led the CAPRISA 004 tenofovir gel trial, the first evidence for HIV PrEP.

Quentin Gibson

Quentin Gibson, full name Quentin Howieson Gibson (1918–2011), was a British-born biochemist who spent most of his career in the United States studying rapid-reaction kinetics and hemoglobin.

Qui-Lim Choo

Qui-Lim Choo is a virologist who, working in Michael Houghton's laboratory at the Chiron Corporation, found clone 5-1-1, identified the hepatitis C virus, and co-developed its first blood-screening test.

Quickening

Quickening is a pregnant woman's first perception of fetal movement, typically between 14 and 22 weeks' gestation, most often 18 to 20 weeks. Historically it confirmed pregnancy and marked the common-law abortion threshold before quickening.

Qutayba Hamid

Qutayba Hamid (1953–2026) was an Iraqi-born respiratory immunologist at McGill University best known for showing that Th2 cytokines are associated with asthma, work credited as the basis for the accepted hypothesis of allergic disease.

Quyen Nguyen

Quyen Nguyen is an American surgeon-scientist at UC San Diego known for color-coded surgery using fluorescent tracers that light up tumors and nerves during operations.

R Dyche Mullins

R. Dyche Mullins is an American cell biologist at UCSF and an HHMI investigator known for working out how branched actin networks assemble and generate force.

R. Adams Dudley

R. Adams Dudley is an American pulmonologist and health services researcher who studies the quality and value of medical care, directing the UCSF Center for Healthcare Value.

R. Alan B. Ezekowitz

R. Alan B. Ezekowitz is a South African-born immunologist known for innate immunity research who served as chief of pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital and later co-founded Abide Therapeutics.