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U. Benjamin Kaupp

U. Benjamin Kaupp, born 1949, is a biophysical chemist at the University of Bonn and Max Planck Institute known for work on ion channels in sensory cells and sperm.

Ueli Aebi

Ueli Aebi (1946–2025) was a Swiss structural cell biologist at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, known for work on the cytoskeleton, nuclear lamina, and nuclear pore complexes.

Ueli Grossniklaus

Ueli Grossniklaus, born 1964 in Beatenberg, Switzerland, is a Swiss plant developmental biologist and full professor at the University of Zurich known for work on genomic imprinting, seed development, and apomixis.

Ueli Rutishauser

Ueli Rutishauser is a Swiss-born systems neuroscientist who studies human memory and cognition by recording individual neurons in living people, directing the Center for Neural Science and Medicine at Cedars-Sinai.

Ueli Schibler

Ueli Schibler (Ulrich Schibler), born in 1947, is a Swiss molecular biologist at the University of Geneva known for discovering self-sustained circadian clocks in organs such as the liver.

Ueli Suter

Ueli Suter is a Swiss neuroscientist and professor emeritus at ETH Zurich who studies neuron-glia interactions and myelination, best known for identifying the PMP22 mutation in the Trembler mouse.

Ugo Cerletti

Ugo Cerletti (1877–1963) was an Italian neurologist and psychiatrist who, with Lucio Bini, introduced electroconvulsive therapy in Rome in 1938, after observing pigs stunned at a slaughterhouse recover safely.

Ulf Gyllensten

Ulf Gyllensten is a Swedish geneticist and professor of medical molecular genetics at Uppsala University, known for the 2000 Nature study of human mitochondrial genome variation.

Ulf Landmesser

Ulf Landmesser (born 1970) is a German cardiologist, Director of Cardiology at Charité Campus Benjamin Franklin in Berlin and Deputy Medical Director of the DHZC.

Ulf Lindahl

Ulf Lindahl, born in 1940, is a Swedish glycobiologist and emeritus professor at Uppsala University whose work on heparin's antithrombin-binding sequence underpinned low-molecular-weight heparin drugs.

Ulf Pettersson

Ulf Pettersson (1942–2024) was a Swedish molecular geneticist and virologist, professor of medical genetics at Uppsala University, known for his 1970s work on adenovirus DNA and RNA.

Ulf R. Rapp

Ulf R. Rapp, full name Ulf Rüdiger Rapp, is a molecular biologist and cancer researcher known for discovering the RAF oncogene and RAF/MYC cooperation in transformation.

Ulf von Euler

Ulf von Euler was a Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist who shared the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on chemical transmitters in nerves.

Ulrich Brose

Ulrich Brose is a German ecologist who works on food-web theory and allometric scaling, leading the Theory in Biodiversity Science group at iDiv and serving as a professor at Friedrich Schiller University Jena.

Ulrich Gehring

Ulrich Gehring (1935–2019) was a molecular biologist at UCSF and Heidelberg University known for genetic analysis of steroid hormone receptor defects and work on hsp70 molecular chaperones.

Ulrich H. Koszinowski

Ulrich H. Koszinowski is a German virologist and immunologist known for work on how cytomegaloviruses block MHC antigen presentation and for the first infectious herpesvirus BAC clone.

Ulrich H. von Andrian

Ulrich H. von Andrian is a German-trained immunologist who is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Immunopathology at Harvard Medical School, known for intravital microscopy and T cell migration.

Ulrich Hübscher

Ulrich Hübscher is a Swiss molecular biologist and biochemist at the University of Zurich known for his work on eukaryotic DNA polymerases and DNA repair.

Ulrich K. Laemmli

Ulrich K. Laemmli (U.K. Laemmli), born in Schaffhausen in 1940, is a Swiss molecular biologist who developed the standard SDS-PAGE protein method in 1970 and later studied chromosome scaffold structure at the University of Geneva.

Ulrich Laufs

Ulrich Laufs is a German cardiologist who became Professor of Cardiology at Leipzig University in 2017, known for work showing statins raise endothelial nitric oxide synthase.

Ulrich Müller

Ulrich Müller is a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University, a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor known for identifying the molecular machinery that cochlear hair cells use to convert sound into electrical signals.

Ulrich R. Christensen

Ulrich R. Christensen, born 1954, is a German geophysicist known for scaling laws of planetary magnetic fields and directorship at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research.

Ulrich Siebenlist

Ulrich "Uli" Siebenlist (1951–2020) was a German-born American molecular immunologist who spent his career at NIAID in Bethesda, Maryland, known for cloning NF-κB family members and defining how IκB-α releases NF-κB.

Ulrich Steidl

Ulrich Steidl is a physician-scientist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York who directs its cancer center and studies how pre-leukemic stem cells progress into leukemia.

Ulrich Tepaß

Ulrich Tepaß is a German-trained cell biologist and full professor at the University of Toronto who, working on the fruit fly, identified Crumbs, a protein linked to inherited blindness.

Ulrich Westphal

Ulrich Westphal (born 3 May 1910) was a biochemist who worked as Adolf Butenandt's assistant and co-authored the 1934 isolation of progesterone in chemically pure form.

Ulrich Wolf

Ulrich Wolf, born 1933 in Riesa, Saxony, is a German human geneticist who co-described Wolf–Hirschhorn syndrome in 1965 and held the Freiburg genetics chair from 1972 to 2001.

Ulrik Gether

Ulrik Gether is a Danish neuroscientist, Professor of Neuropharmacology at the University of Copenhagen since 2001, known for work on the dopamine transporter and G protein-coupled receptors.

Ulrike A. Heberlein

Ulrike A. Heberlein is a Chilean-trained American neurogeneticist who introduced the fruit fly as a model for drug and alcohol addiction and won the 1998 PECASE award.

Ulrike Gaul

Ulrike Gaul (1960–2020) was a German developmental and systems biologist known for modeling Drosophila gene regulation; she led a lab at the Gene Center Munich from 2009.