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Victor D. Vacquier
Victor D. Vacquier is an emeritus professor of marine biology at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, known for isolating bindin, the sea urchin sperm protein that attaches sperm to eggs.
Victor Dubowitz
Victor Dubowitz (born 1931) is a South African-born British pediatric neurologist known for Dubowitz syndrome, the Dubowitz neonatal assessments, and a half-century of work on childhood muscle disease.
Victor Eisenmenger
Victor Eisenmenger was an Austrian physician and laryngologist who described in 1897 the congenital heart malformation later named the Eisenmenger complex, and served as personal physician to Archduke Franz Ferdinand from 1895 to 1914.
Victor F. Tapson
Victor F. Tapson is an American pulmonologist known for work on venous thromboembolism and pulmonary hypertension, and Vice President of Medical Affairs at Inari Medical since 2021.
Victor G. Corces
Victor G. Corces is a Spanish-born molecular biologist, a professor of human genetics at Emory University since 2007, known for work on chromatin insulators and genome organization.
Víctor H. Engelhard
Víctor H. Engelhard is an American immunologist at the University of Virginia, best known for his 1992 sequencing of peptides bound to the MHC molecule HLA-A*02, which helped establish immunopeptidomics.
Victor Heiser
Victor Heiser (Victor George Heiser, 1873–1972) was an American physician who led Philippine public health from 1905 to 1915, then directed Rockefeller Foundation health programs across Asia.
Victor Herbert
Victor Herbert (1927–2002) was an American hematologist and nutrition scientist, a professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine who proved by self-experiment that folate deficiency alone causes megaloblastic anemia.
Victor J. Dzau
Victor J. Dzau is a Shanghai-born, McGill-trained cardiologist whose work on the renin-angiotensin system underpinned ACE inhibitor drugs, and who was president of the National Academy of Medicine from 2014 to 2026.
Victor J. Hruby
Victor J. Hruby, born in 1938, is a peptide chemist and Regents Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona known for melanocortin analogs like NDP-α-MSH.
Victor L. J. Tybulewicz
Victor L. J. Tybulewicz is an immunologist at the Francis Crick Institute in London who studies lymphocyte development and created the Tc1 mouse model of Down syndrome.
Victor L. Yu
Victor L. Yu (died 2022) was an infectious-diseases physician at the University of Pittsburgh and its VA hospital, best known for identifying hospital tap water as the reservoir of Legionnaires' disease.
Victor Ling
Victor Ling is a Canadian cancer researcher known for discovering P-glycoprotein, the first molecule identified as responsible for drug resistance in cancer chemotherapy, and for founding the Terry Fox Research Institute.
Víctor M. Montori
Víctor M. Montori is a Peruvian-born endocrinologist and health services researcher at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for minimally disruptive medicine and founding the nonprofit The Patient Revolution.
Victor Nizet
Victor Nizet is an American physician-scientist at UC San Diego who studies bacterial pathogenesis and innate immunity, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022.
Victor Nussenzweig
Victor Nussenzweig (1928–2025) was a Brazilian-born immunologist and pathologist at New York University who co-discovered the malaria circumsporozoite protein, the antigen of the vaccines RTS,S and R21.
Victor Pachon
Victor Pachon was a French physician and physiologist who invented the Pachon oscillometer, enabling accurate blood pressure determination. He directed a Paris lab and was a 1928 Nobel nominee.
Víctor S. Batista
Víctor S. Batista (Victor Salvador Batista) is an Argentine-born theoretical and computational chemist who holds the John Gamble Kirkwood Professorship of Chemistry at Yale University.
Victor Smetacek
Victor Smetacek, born 1946 in India, is a marine biologist and professor at the University of Bremen known for plankton ecology and Southern Ocean carbon cycle research.
Victor Sourjik
Victor Sourjik, born 1970, is a German-based molecular biologist known for quantitative single-cell studies of bacterial chemotaxis, directing systems microbiology at the Max Planck Institute in Marburg.
Victor Veau
Victor Veau (1871–1949) was a French surgeon at the Hôpital des Enfants-Assistés in Paris who pioneered cleft palate surgery and created the four-class Veau classification still widely used.
Victor Velculescu
Victor Velculescu is an American oncology researcher at Johns Hopkins University who developed the SAGE gene-expression method, advanced liquid biopsy through cell-free DNA analysis, and founded the diagnostics companies Personal Genome Diagnostics and DELFI Diagnostics.
Victor Vertes
Victor Vertes (1927–2014) was an American physician and researcher who led medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, Cleveland, for over 25 years and helped develop the OPTIFAST diet program.
Victor von Ebner
Victor von Ebner (1842–1925) was an Austrian histologist at the University of Vienna whose name survives in Ebner's glands of the tongue and the lines of von Ebner.
Victor W. Hsu
Victor W. Hsu is a cell biologist and Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, studying intracellular transport and cell death.
Victor W. Sidel
Victor W. Sidel was an American physician and public health researcher at Montefiore and Albert Einstein in New York who co-founded Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Victoria Fromkin
Victoria Fromkin, born Victoria Alexandra Landish, was an American linguist at UCLA who established the study of speech errors as evidence for how language works in the mind.
Victoria J. Orphan
Victoria J. Orphan is an American geobiologist at the California Institute of Technology who studies deep-sea microbes that consume methane, work honored with a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship.
Victoria Lundblad
Victoria Lundblad, who publishes as Vicki Lundblad, is a molecular geneticist and Distinguished Professor Emerita at the Salk Institute, known for her work on telomeres and telomerase in yeast.
Victoria Sanz‐Moreno
Victoria Sanz-Moreno is a Spanish cancer cell biologist who studies how the cytoskeleton drives invasion and metastasis, and is a professor at The Institute of Cancer Research in London.