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Virginia Pascual

Virginia Pascual, born 1958 in Madrid, Spain, is a Spanish-born pediatric rheumatologist known for lupus immunology research and director of children's health research at Weill Cornell Medicine since 2017.

Virginia Pierce

Virginia M. Pierce is a clinical microbiologist and pediatric infectious diseases physician who is a Clinical Associate Professor of Pathology and Pediatrics at the University of Michigan.

Virginia W. Cornish

Virginia W. Cornish is the Helena Rubinstein Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University, known for the TMP-tag for labeling proteins, synthetic RNA switches, and yeast biosensors for pathogen detection.

Virginia Walbot

Virginia Walbot is an American plant biologist and Emerita Professor of Biology at Stanford University whose laboratory explained how transposons move within the corn genome.

Virginijus Siksnys

Virginijus Siksnys, also known as Virginijus Šikšnys, is a Lithuanian biochemist at Vilnius University whose 2012 work showed CRISPR-Cas9 can cut DNA at any chosen sequence.

Viroj Tangcharoensathien

Viroj Tangcharoensathien is a Thai health policy researcher who co-founded the International Health Policy Program in 1998 and helped design Thailand's 2002 universal health coverage scheme.

Vishva Dixit

Vishva M. Dixit is a Kenyan-born American immunologist at Genentech who discovered that caspases carry out programmed cell death, described the non-canonical inflammasome, and identified gasdermin D as the pore-forming protein in pyroptosis.

Vishwa Deep Dixit

Vishwa Deep Dixit (Vishwa D. Dixit) is an immunometabolism researcher at Yale School of Medicine who directs the Yale Center for Research on Aging and studies inflammation in aging.

Vishwanath R. Lingappa

Vishwanath R. Lingappa is an American cell biologist and physician, emeritus professor of physiology at UCSF and founder of Prosetta Biosciences, known for work on the signal hypothesis.

Vitaly Citovsky

Vitaly Citovsky is a plant molecular biologist and SUNY Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University, known for work on plant virus movement and Agrobacterium transformation.

Vito Quaranta

Vito Quaranta, MD, is an American cancer systems biologist, now professor of the practice at Northeastern University, formerly at Vanderbilt, known for integrative mathematical oncology and the DIP rate.

Vittal K. Yachandra

Vittal K. Yachandra is a biophysical chemist and spectroscopist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who studies photosynthetic water oxidation and metalloenzymes by X-ray spectroscopy and femtosecond X-ray laser crystallography.

Vittorio Erspamer

Vittorio Erspamer (1909–1999) was an Italian pharmacologist at the University of Rome who identified enteramine as serotonin and screened amphibian skins and mollusks, discovering peptides including bombesin and the tachykinins.

Vittorio Gallo

Vittorio Gallo is a neuroscientist in developmental neuroscience and glial biology, known for work on oligodendrocyte progenitor cells and white-matter injury in premature infants; he joined Seattle Children's in 2023.

Vivek B. Shenoy

Vivek B. Shenoy is a materials scientist and mechanobiologist, the Eduardo D. Glandt Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, directing the NSF Center for Engineering MechanoBiology since 2016.

Vivek Jayaraman

Vivek Jayaraman is a neuroscientist and Senior Group Leader at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, known for the GCaMP6 calcium indicators, the Chronos and Chrimson optogenetic tools, and fly navigation research.

Vivek Malhotra

Vivek Malhotra is a cell biologist and ICREA Research Professor at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona who studies the Golgi apparatus and protein secretion.

Vivek Subbiah

Vivek Subbiah is a medical oncologist who spent nearly 15 years at MD Anderson, leads early-phase precision oncology trials including LIBRETTO-001 and ROAR, and joined Stanford Cancer Institute in 2026.

Vivek Y. Reddy

Vivek Y. Reddy, also published as Vivek Reddy, is an American cardiac electrophysiologist who directs Cardiac Arrhythmia Services at Mount Sinai and led the pivotal ADVENT trial of pulsed field ablation.

Vivekanand Jha

Vivekanand Jha is an Indian nephrologist and global-health researcher, Executive Director of The George Institute India and President of the International Society of Nephrology from 2019 to 2021.

Vivette D. D’Agati

Vivette D. D'Agati is an American renal pathologist who has directed Columbia University's Renal Pathology Division since 1984 and created the Columbia Classification of FSGS.

Vivian Budnik

Vivian Budnik is a neuroscientist and Professor and Chair Emeritus of Neurobiology at UMass Chan Medical School, known for defining Wnt signaling in synapse development using Drosophila.

Vivian Cheung

Vivian Cheung is a human geneticist and RNA biologist known for mapping genetic determinants of human gene expression; she was an HHMI investigator and joined Brown University in 2024.

Vivian Siegel

Vivian Siegel is a cell biologist and geneticist known for her work on the signal recognition particle and for a career as a scientific editor, leading PLoS publishing from 2003 to 2005.

Viviana Gradinaru

Viviana Gradinaru is a neuroscientist and biological engineer at Caltech, an HHMI Investigator and Merkin Institute director known for tissue-clearing methods like CLARITY and engineered AAV capsids such as AAV-PHP.eB.

Viviane Slon

Viviane Slon is a French-born, Israel-raised paleogeneticist at Tel Aviv University, first author of the 2018 Nature paper describing Denisova 11, a girl with a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father.

Viviane Tabar

Viviane Tabar is a neurosurgeon-scientist and stem cell biologist who has chaired the Department of Neurosurgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York since 2017.

Vı́ctor de Lorenzo

Víctor de Lorenzo, born in Madrid in 1957, is a Spanish chemist and CSIC research professor who engineers the soil bacterium Pseudomonas putida for biosensing and environmental cleanup.

Vlad Ratziu

Vlad Ratziu is a French hepatologist and professor at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, known for research on fatty liver disease and as co-lead investigator of the MAESTRO-NASH resmetirom trial.

Vladimir Bekhterev

Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev (Владимир Михайлович Бехтерев; 1857 to 1927) was a Russian neurologist and psychiatrist who founded Russia's first psychophysiological laboratory and coined "reflexology"; ankylosing spondylitis is still called Bekhterev's disease.