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Veit Flockerzi
Veit Flockerzi is a German pharmacologist who has been Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology at Saarland University since 1997, known for work on calcium and TRP channels.
Veit Hornung
Veit Hornung, born 1976, is a German immunologist who holds the Chair of Immunobiochemistry at LMU Munich and studies how the innate immune system detects nucleic acids.
Velia M. Fowler
Velia M. Fowler is an American cell biologist known for discovering the tropomodulin proteins that cap actin filaments, and for three decades of red blood cell research at Scripps Research.
Venigalla B. Rao
Venigalla B. Rao is an American bacteriophage biologist and professor at The Catholic University of America, known for discovering the T4 DNA packaging machine and phage-based vaccines.
Venkatesan Sundaresan
Venkatesan Sundaresan is a plant biologist and Distinguished Professor at UC Davis known for engineering synthetic apomixis in rice, winning the 2024 Wolf Prize in Agriculture.
Venkatesh N. Murthy
Venkatesh N. Murthy is a systems neuroscientist at Harvard who studies how the brain encodes odors; he has directed Harvard's Center for Brain Science since arriving in 1999.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, known as Venki, is an Indian-born British-American structural biologist who shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his atomic structures of the ribosome.
Venki Ramakrishnan
Venki Ramakrishnan is a British-American structural biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge who shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the ribosome's structure.
Vera Gorbunova
Vera Gorbunova is a biologist at the University of Rochester who studies longevity and cancer resistance in long-lived mammals such as naked mole rats and bowhead whales.
Verne Grant
Verne Grant (1917–2007) was an American botanist and geneticist who studied how new plant species arise, wrote Plant Speciation, and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1968.
Verne M. Chapman
Verne M. Chapman, also known as Verne Chapman, was an American mammalian geneticist at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York, known for mouse genome mapping.
Verne S. Caviness
Verne S. Caviness (1934–2021) was an American child neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard, known for a 1975 mechanical model of cortical folding and MRI-based brain morphometry.
Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle
Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle (1918–2015) was an American neurophysiologist at Johns Hopkins whose 1957 discovery of vertical columns in the cerebral cortex revolutionized neuroscience, earning him the Lasker Award and National Medal of Science.
Vernon Lyman Kellogg
Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1867–1937) was an American entomologist and evolutionary biologist, a Stanford professor known for work on biting lice who later led the National Research Council.
Vernon M. Ingram
Vernon M. Ingram, born Werner Adolf Martin Immerwahr, was a British-American molecular biologist who showed that sickle-cell anemia is caused by a single amino acid change in hemoglobin.
Vernon R. Young
Vernon R. Young (1937–2004) was a Welsh-born nutritional biochemist at MIT, regarded as the world's leading expert on human protein and amino acid requirements and metabolism.
Vernonica Franklin-Tong
Vernonica Franklin-Tong, known as Noni Franklin-Tong, is a British plant cell biologist at the University of Birmingham, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2021, known for research on self-incompatibility in the field poppy.
Veronica van Heyningen
Veronica van Heyningen is a British geneticist who identified the PAX6 gene, mutated in the eye disorder aniridia, at the MRC Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh.
Véronique L. Roger
Véronique L. Roger is a cardiologist and cardiovascular epidemiologist who spent her career at Mayo Clinic before joining the NIH's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in 2021.
Véronique Préat
Véronique Préat is a Belgian pharmaceutical scientist and emeritus professor at UCLouvain in Brussels who founded the Advanced Drug Delivery and Biomaterials group, known for nanoparticle drug delivery research.
Vicente Arroyo
Vicente Arroyo (Vicente Arroyo Pérez), born 1945 in La Coruña, Spain, is a Spanish hepatologist and emeritus professor at the University of Barcelona known for defining acute-on-chronic liver failure.
Vicente E. Torres
Vicente E. Torres, also known as Vicente Torres, is a nephrologist and professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who led the tolvaptan trials for ADPKD.
Vicente Gilsanz
Vicente Gilsanz is a Spanish-born pediatric radiologist, professor of Radiology and Orthopaedic Surgery at USC and Children's Hospital Los Angeles, who studies bone development and osteoporosis.
Vicki L. Chandler
Vicki L. Chandler is an American plant geneticist known for her research on paramutation and gene silencing in maize, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2002.
Victor A. McKusick
Victor A. McKusick (1921–2008) was an American physician and medical geneticist at Johns Hopkins University, widely called the founder of medical genetics, who compiled Mendelian Inheritance in Man and championed the Human Genome Project.
Victor Ambros
Victor Ambros (Victor R. Ambros) is an American developmental biologist who discovered the first microRNA, lin-4, in 1993 and shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Victor Anomah Ngu
Victor Anomah Ngu (1926–2011) was a Cameroonian professor of surgery, vice-chancellor of the University of Yaoundé, and minister of public health who founded the West African College of Surgeons.
Victor Babeș
Victor Babeș (1854–1926) was a Romanian physician and bacteriologist who founded Romania's first research institute and gave his name to the blood parasite genus Babesia.
Victor C. Twitty
Victor C. Twitty (1901–1967) was an American experimental embryologist and Stanford professor, a National Academy of Sciences member known for work on salamander and newt embryos.
Victor Clarence Vaughan
Victor Clarence Vaughan (1851–1929) was an American physician and bacteriologist, dean of the University of Michigan Medical School from 1891 to 1921 and president of the American Medical Association.