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Uta Frith

Uta Frith is a German-born British developmental psychologist and emeritus professor at University College London whose work linked autism and dyslexia to the brain, developing the mindblindness and weak central coherence theories.

Ute M. Moll

Ute M. Moll is a physician-scientist and pathologist at Stony Brook University known for showing that stabilized mutant p53 acts as an oncogene whose removal regresses tumors.

Utpal Banerjee

Utpal Banerjee is an Indian-born American developmental biologist at UCLA who studies cell signaling in the Drosophila eye, blood progenitor maintenance, and metabolic control of development.

Utpal Pajvani

Utpal B. Pajvani is an American physician-scientist at Columbia University whose research established that Notch signaling drives insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, and fatty liver disease in obesity.

Uttam L. RajBhandary

Uttam L. RajBhandary is a molecular biologist and Lester Wolfe Professor of Molecular Biology Emeritus at MIT, known for sequencing the first mitochondrial tRNA in 1978.

Uttiya Basu

Uttiya Basu is an RNA biologist and immunologist, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology at Columbia University, who studies how the RNA exosome shapes antibody diversification and genome stability.

Utz Fischer

Utz Fischer, born 1964 in Berlin, is a German biochemist and professor at the University of Würzburg known for work on snRNP assembly and spinal muscular atrophy.

Uwe Drescher

Uwe Drescher, born 1959, is a German molecular neurobiologist and professor at King's College London known for purifying ephrinA5 and showing Eph/ephrin signaling guides retinal axons.

Uwe Ohler

Uwe Ohler is a German computer scientist and computational biologist who studies gene regulation with machine learning, holding professorships in Berlin and an adjunct post at Duke.

Uwe Platzbecker

Uwe Platzbecker (born 1970 in Dresden) is a German hematologist who led the APL0406 and MEDALIST trials in acute promyelocytic leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes, and directs university hospitals in Leipzig and Dresden.

Uwe Sauer

Uwe Sauer (born 1963 in Kassel, Germany) is a German microbiologist and systems biologist, Full Professor for Systems Biology at ETH Zurich, known for 13C metabolic flux analysis.

V. Adrian Parsegian

V. Adrian Parsegian (born Vozken Adrian Parsegian), who died in 2023, was a biophysicist who spent 42 years at NIH, known for the osmotic stress technique.

V. Craig Jordan

V. Craig Jordan was an American pharmacologist known as the "Father of Tamoxifen" who discovered SERMs and made tamoxifen the first targeted treatment for breast cancer.

V. Narry Kim

V. Narry Kim (김나리) is a South Korean RNA biologist, Distinguished Professor at Seoul National University and founding director of the IBS Center for RNA Research, known for the microRNA biogenesis pathway.

V. Wee Yong

V. Wee Yong, also known as Voon Wee Yong, is a neuroimmunologist and professor at the University of Calgary known for the 2017 minocycline trial delaying multiple sclerosis.

Vadim Cherezov

Vadim Cherezov is a structural biologist and professor at the University of Southern California known for crystallizing membrane proteins in lipidic cubic phase and GPCR structures.

Vadim N. Gladyshev

Vadim N. Gladyshev (Гладышев Вадим Николаевич) is a biochemist at Harvard Medical School who defined the human selenoproteome and built epigenetic clocks that measure biological age.

Vadim Y. Bolshakov

Vadim Y. Bolshakov, also published as Vadim Bolshakov, is a cellular neuroscientist who directs the Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory at McLean Hospital and is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Val C. Sheffield

Val C. Sheffield is an American physician-scientist at the University of Iowa known for discovering genes for inherited blindness and for leadership in building the human genetic maps.

Valakunja Nagaraja

Valakunja Nagaraja, also known as V. Nagaraja, is an Indian molecular biologist at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, known for work on tuberculosis bacterium biology and drug targets.

Valentin Dragoi

Valentin Dragoi is an American neuroscientist who studies how neuron populations in visual cortex encode information, known for the 2008 Nature study on adaptive coding of visual information.

Valentina Greco

Valentina Greco, born 1972 in Palermo, Italy, is an Italian-born stem cell biologist at Yale University known for live imaging of stem cells in living mouse skin.

Valentina Nardi

Valentina Nardi is an Italian-born hematopathologist, Associate Director of Hematological Molecular Pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard associate professor, known for gene-fusion detection in leukemias and guideline work.

Valentı́n Fuster

Valentín Fuster, born 1943 in Barcelona, is a Spanish cardiologist who leads Mount Sinai's heart hospital in New York and the CNIC in Madrid, and led major cardiovascular prevention trials.

Valeri Vasioukhin

Valeri Vasioukhin (Valeri I. Vasioukhin) is a cell biologist and Professor Emeritus at Fred Hutch in Seattle, known for work on epithelial adhesion and hepsin in prostate cancer.

Valeria Culotta

Valeria C. Culotta is a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, known for discovering the copper chaperone for superoxide dismutase in 1997.

Valerian E. Kagan

Valerian E. Kagan is a Soviet-trained biochemist at the University of Pittsburgh who founded the field of oxidative lipidomics and identified oxidized phospholipids that signal cell death in ferroptosis.

Valérie A. Luyckx

Valérie A. Luyckx is a South African-trained nephrologist and physician-scientist at University Children's Hospital Zurich, known for her 2013 Lancet review linking low birth weight to kidney disease.

Valerie Beral

Valerie Beral (1946–2022) was an Australian-born epidemiologist who directed Oxford's Cancer Epidemiology Unit and founded the Million Women Study, whose findings on hormone therapy reshaped HRT prescribing.

Valérie Biousse

Valérie Biousse is a French-trained neurologist and neuro-ophthalmologist who is Professor of Ophthalmology and Neurology at Emory University in Atlanta, known for applying deep learning to detect papilledema from eye photographs.