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Valerie Horsley

Valerie Horsley is an American stem cell and skin biologist at Yale University known for showing that fat cells drive hair growth and skin repair.

Valerie M. Williamson

Valerie M. Williamson is an American nematologist who studied plant-parasitic nematodes at UC Davis from 1987 until retiring in 2013, best known for cloning the tomato Mi-1.2 resistance gene.

Valerie T. Eviner

Valerie T. Eviner is an American ecosystem and rangeland ecologist, professor at the University of California, Davis, and a 2008 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Valerie Weaver

Valerie M. Weaver is an American cancer biologist, Professor of Surgery and director of the Center for Bioengineering & Tissue Regeneration at UCSF, known for showing that tissue stiffening drives tumor progression.

Valerio Orlando

Valerio Orlando is an Italian molecular biologist, born in Rome in 1960, known for work on Polycomb group proteins, chromatin, and epigenetic control of cell identity.

Valery I. Shestapalov

Valery I. Shestapalov, also spelled Shestopalov, is a Russian-trained molecular geneticist and vision scientist who is Professor of Ophthalmology and Cell Biology at the University of Miami and received a 2004 PECASE award.

Valery L. Feigin

Valery L. Feigin is a New Zealand-based neurologist and neuroepidemiologist, Professor and Director of the National Institute for Stroke and Applied Neurosciences at Auckland University of Technology.

Valina Dawson

Valina L. Dawson is a neuroscientist and professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine known for identifying and naming parthanatos, a neuronal cell death pathway implicated in Parkinson's disease.

Vallerie V. McLaughlin

Vallerie V. McLaughlin is an American cardiologist at the University of Michigan who directs its Pulmonary Hypertension Program and led major pulmonary arterial hypertension drug trials, including the 2025 sotatercept HYPERION study.

Valsamo Anagnostou

Valsamo (Elsa) Anagnostou, Greek: Βαλσάμω Αναγνώστου, is a Greek physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins University who works on lung cancer genomics and liquid biopsies, chairing the ctDNA trial BR.36.

Valter D. Longo

Valter D. Longo is a biogerontologist, professor at the University of Southern California, and director of its Longevity Institute, known for developing the fasting-mimicking diet.

Vamsi Krishna Mootha

Vamsi Krishna Mootha, also known as Vamsi K. Mootha, is an Indian-born American scientist, born in 1971, who studies mitochondrial disease at Harvard and created the MitoCarta proteome inventory.

Van C. Mow

Van C. Mow (毛昭宪), born 1939 in Zhejiang, China, is a Columbia University biomechanical engineer known for the biphasic and triphasic theories of articular cartilage and winner of the 2014 ASME Medal.

Van R. Potter

Van R. Potter, full name Van Rensselaer Potter II, was an American biochemist and oncologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison's McArdle Laboratory who independently reintroduced the term "bioethics" in 1970.

Vance G. Fowler

Vance G. Fowler (Vance Garrison Fowler Jr.) is an American infectious diseases physician at Duke University known for research on Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia and infective endocarditis.

Vanda A. Lennon

Vanda A. Lennon is an Australian-born neuroimmunologist at Mayo Clinic who demonstrated that Lambert-Eaton syndrome is an antibody-mediated disorder and founded its autoimmune neurology testing service.

Vanderson Rocha

Vanderson Rocha is a hematologist and transplant physician-scientist at Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris and the University of São Paulo, scientific director of Eurocord for 25 years.

Vanessa Ruta

Vanessa Ruta is a Rockefeller University neuroscientist and 2019 MacArthur Fellow who studies how the fruit fly brain turns odors and social signals into behavior.

Vanessa Sperandio

Vanessa Sperandio is a Brazilian-born microbiologist who studies how gut bacteria sense host hormones, and chairs Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Vânia Nosé

Vânia Nosé, also written Vania Nosé, is a surgical pathologist specializing in endocrine pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for classifying familial thyroid tumors.

Vanika Garg

Vanika Garg is an Australian-based computational genomicist at Murdoch University who works on crop genomes, after earlier work at ICRISAT in Hyderabad, India, including the 2021 chickpea variation map in Nature.

Vann Bennett

Vann Bennett is an American biochemist and cell biologist at Duke University, known for discovering ankyrin and adducin and for identifying an inherited cardiac arrhythmia syndrome caused by ankyrin-B mutations.

Varda Rotter

Varda Rotter is an Israeli cancer researcher and professor emerita at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for showing that mutant p53 actively promotes cancer.

Varun Venkataramani

Varun Venkataramani (born 1989) is a neuroscientist and research group leader at Heidelberg University Hospital whose 2019 discovery of neuron–glioma synapses founded the field of cancer neuroscience.

Vasily M. Studitsky

Vasily M. Studitsky (Василий Студитский) is a molecular biologist at Moscow State University and Fox Chase Cancer Center known for showing how histone octamers pass transcribing polymerases.

Vassili Soumelis

Vassili Soumelis (born 1970) is a French physician-scientist and immunologist at Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris, known for identifying TSLP as an epithelial cytokine driving allergic inflammation.

Vassiliki A. Boussiotis

Vassiliki A. Boussiotis is a Greek-born immunologist and oncologist, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, known for work on T cell anergy and the PD-1 checkpoint pathway.

Vassilis Pachnis

Vassilis Pachnis is a Greek-born developmental neuroscientist who studies how the enteric nervous system of the gut is built, leading a laboratory at The Francis Crick Institute in London.

Vay Liang W. Go

Vay Liang W. Go is a Filipino-born American gastroenterologist who co-founded the American Pancreatic Association, founded the journal Pancreas, and worked at Mayo Clinic, NIH, and UCLA.

Veerle Provoost

Veerle Provoost is a Belgian empirical bioethicist and professor at Ghent University who studies how ordinary people and fertility professionals reason morally about reproductive medicine, and gave a 2016 TED talk on sperm donors.