Life and health scientists

Vincent Mor

Vincent Mor is a Brown University health services researcher elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2015, known for work on nursing home quality and hospice.

Vincent Munster

Vincent J. Munster is a Dutch-born virologist who leads the Virus Ecology Section at NIAID's Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Montana; his laboratory produced early SARS-CoV-2 measurements.

Vincent P. Butler was an American physician-scientist and immunologist at Columbia University who reported the first digoxin-specific antibodies in 1967, enabling the digoxin radioimmunoassay and antibody treatment of digitalis toxicity.

Vincent Prévot

Vincent Prévot, also published as Vincent Prevot, is a French neuroendocrinologist at Inserm and the University of Lille known for showing that hypothalamic tanycytes act as a gateway for leptin and anti-obesity drugs.

Vincent Quagliarello

Vincent J. Quagliarello is an American infectious diseases physician at Yale School of Medicine, known for research on meningitis, endocarditis, and infections among older adults.

Vincent R. Racaniello

Vincent R. Racaniello is an American virologist and Higgins Professor at Columbia University whose laboratory identified the poliovirus receptor and who hosts the podcast This Week in Virology.

Vincent S. Tagliabracci

Vincent S. Tagliabracci is an American biochemist and HHMI Investigator at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for showing that protein kinase folds catalyze reactions other than phosphorylation.

Vincent T. DeVita

Vincent T. DeVita is an American oncologist who developed the MOPP chemotherapy regimen for advanced Hodgkin's disease and directed the National Cancer Institute from 1980 to 1988.

Vincent T. Marchesi

Vincent T. Marchesi is a cell biologist and pathologist at Yale School of Medicine, known for his 1968 discovery and naming of spectrin in the red blood cell membrane.

Vincent Wigglesworth

Sir Vincent Brian Wigglesworth (1899–1994) was an English entomologist who founded modern insect physiology, discovering juvenile hormone and the hormonal control of moulting in insects.

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Vincenz Czerny

Vincenz Czerny (1842–1916) was a German surgeon who founded modern hernia surgery, performed the first breast reconstruction, and built Germany's first experimental cancer research institute.

Vincenzo Bronte

Vincenzo Bronte is an Italian tumor immunologist who discovered myeloid-derived suppressor cells, showed they suppress T cells through arginine metabolism, and studies how this limits cancer immunotherapy.

Vincenzo Cerundolo

Vincenzo Cerundolo (1959–2020) was an Italian-born immunologist at Oxford who directed the MRC Human Immunology Unit, studied antigen presentation and cancer immunotherapy, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2018.

Vincenzo Di Marzo

Vincenzo Di Marzo is an Italian pharmacologist at the National Research Council of Italy in Naples and Université Laval, known for coining the names endocannabinoids and endovanilloids.

Vincenzo Mazzaferro

Vincenzo Mazzaferro is an Italian surgeon-scientist, full Professor of Surgery at the University of Milan, known for defining the Milan criteria that govern liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma.

Vincenzo Pirrotta

Vincenzo Pirrotta (born 1942) is an Italian-born molecular biologist known for his work on Polycomb group proteins, and a Rutgers professor emeritus who retired in June 2020.

Vineet Bafna

Vineet Bafna is a computational biologist and professor at UC San Diego known for the breakpoint graph technique and for algorithms that reconstruct extrachromosomal DNA in cancer genomes.

Vinod Menon

Vinod Menon is a cognitive and systems neuroscientist at Stanford University who discovered the salience, default mode, and frontoparietal networks and proposed the triple network model of psychopathology.

Vinod P. Balachandran

Vinod P. Balachandran is a surgeon-scientist and hepatopancreatobiliary surgeon at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, known for leading the first clinical trial of a personalized mRNA neoantigen vaccine against pancreatic cancer.

Vinzenz M. Unger

Vinzenz M. Unger is a structural biologist and Northwestern University professor who studies BAR-domain proteins and membrane curvature, and led the 2012 electron cryomicroscopy structure of endophilin.

Viola Vaccarino

Viola Vaccarino is an Italian-trained physician and cardiovascular epidemiologist at Emory University, known for studies of sex and racial differences in heart attack survival and mental stress-induced ischemia.

Violet Daniel

Violet Daniel is an Israeli molecular biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, known for her work on transfer RNA transcription and processing from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Virend K. Somers

Virend K. Somers, also published as Virend Somers, is a Mayo Clinic physician-scientist studying how sleep apnea drives irregular heart rhythms, heart attacks, and sudden death.

Virgil Loeb Jr

Virgil "Bud" Loeb Jr (1921–2004) was an American hematologist and medical oncologist at Washington University who directed Barnes Hospital's laboratories and served as American Cancer Society national president in 1986–1987.

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Virgil Preston Sydenstricker

Virgil Preston Sydenstricker (1889–1964) was an American physician and nutrition researcher who demonstrated that niacin prevents and cures pellagra, and published the first autopsy-documented case report of sickle cell anemia.

Virgilio L. Lew

Virgilio L. Lew, also published as V. L. Lew, is a physiologist at the University of Cambridge known for work on red blood cell transport and sickle cell dehydration.

Virginia A. Stallings

Virginia A. Stallings is an American pediatric gastroenterologist and nutrition scientist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia who led national committees reshaping school meals and the WIC program.

Virginia A. Zakian

Virginia A. Zakian, known as Ginger Zakian, is an American molecular biologist known for her work on telomeres and DNA helicases, and a longtime Princeton University professor who discovered telomere position effect.

Virginia E. Papaioannou

Virginia E. Papaioannou is a mouse developmental geneticist and Professor Emerita of Genetics and Development at Columbia University, known for discovering the mouse T-box genes and Tbx6.