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William R. Beisel

William R. Beisel was an American physician-scientist in infectious diseases who spent his Army career studying how infection changes metabolism and nutrition, then taught at Johns Hopkins.

William R. Bishai

William R. Bishai, also known as William Bishai, is a physician and professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins who studies the tuberculosis bacterium and co-directs its Center for Tuberculosis Research.

William R. Brinkley

William R. Brinkley (1936–2020) was an American cell biologist known for the first detailed electron microscope images of the kinetochore, and a longtime dean at Baylor College of Medicine.

William R. Brugge

William R. Brugge is a gastroenterologist and Harvard Medical School professor who introduced endoscopic ultrasound to Massachusetts General Hospital in 1993 and led the 2004 cooperative pancreatic cyst study.

William R. Engels

William R. Engels is an American geneticist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for identifying P elements as the cause of hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila.

William R. Heath

William R. Heath, also known as Bill Heath, is an Australian cellular immunologist and University of Melbourne professor who studies CD8 killer T cells, dendritic cells, and self-tolerance.

William R. Henderson

William R. Henderson, Jr. is an American allergist and immunologist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, known for research on leukotrienes and the mechanisms of asthma.

William R. Hiatt

William R. Hiatt (1950–2020) was an American cardiologist at the University of Colorado who led the EUCLID and VOYAGER PAD trials in peripheral artery disease.

William R. Jacobs

William R. Jacobs is a mycobacteriologist and geneticist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine who pioneered tuberculosis genetics, introducing foreign DNA into mycobacteria in 1987.

William R. Jarnagin

William R. Jarnagin is an American hepatopancreatobiliary surgeon who has led the Hepatopancreatobiliary Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center since 2008, known for staging hilar cholangiocarcinoma.

William R. Jarvis

William R. Jarvis is an infectious diseases physician and healthcare-associated infection epidemiologist who led CDC hospital outbreak investigations from 1980 to 2003 and helped establish national infection surveillance.

William R. Jeffery

William R. Jeffery is an evolutionary developmental biologist and emeritus professor at the University of Maryland, known for his work on eye degeneration in blind cavefish and ascidian regeneration.

William R. L. Anderegg

William R. L. Anderegg, known as Bill Anderegg, is an ecosystem ecologist and professor at the University of Utah who studies how drought and climate change affect forests.

William R. McClure

William R. McClure was a molecular biologist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, known for a kinetic dissection of bacterial transcription initiation and a 1983 compilation of E. coli promoter sequences.

William R. Sellers

William R. Sellers is an American cancer biologist who directs the Broad Institute's Cancer Program, teaches at Harvard Medical School, and codiscovered EGFR mutations in lung cancer.

William Rutter (biochemist)

William J. Rutter, known as Bill Rutter, was an American biochemist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for discovering the three RNA polymerase systems and co-founding Chiron Corporation.

William S. Dynan

William S. Dynan is an American molecular biologist known for discovering the transcription factor Sp1 in 1983 and identifying the Ku protein as the regulatory subunit of DNA-dependent protein kinase.

William S. Fiske

William S. Fiske, also recorded as Paul S. Fiske, was an ETH Zürich doctoral researcher who co-authored the 1912 first report of chiral organic molecule catalysis.

William S. Reznikoff

William S. Reznikoff is an American molecular biologist and professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for deciphering the mechanism of transposition of the bacterial transposon Tn5.

William S. Sly

William S. Sly (1932–2025) was an American biochemist and medical geneticist at Saint Louis University who described Sly syndrome and identified the mannose 6-phosphate enzyme-targeting marker.

William S. Talbot

William S. Talbot is an American developmental geneticist and professor at Stanford University whose zebrafish genetic screens identified genes controlling glial development, myelination, and germ-layer formation.

William S. Tillett

William S. Tillett (1892–1974) was an American internist and microbiologist who discovered C-reactive protein and streptokinase, and chaired medicine at New York University from 1938 to 1958.

William S. Weintraub

William S. Weintraub (William Weintraub) is an American cardiologist and outcomes researcher known for leading trials of medical therapy versus revascularization, including the COURAGE trial.

William S. Yancy

William S. Yancy Jr. is an American physician-investigator and Professor of Medicine at Duke University who studies dietary treatments for obesity and type 2 diabetes, including low-carbohydrate ketogenic diets.

William Schafer

William R. Schafer is an American neuroscientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge who studies how neural circuits control behavior using the worm C. elegans.

William Schaffner

William Schaffner is an American infectious disease epidemiologist and Vanderbilt professor who chaired preventive medicine for three decades and is a widely quoted vaccine expert.

William Schief

William R. Schief is a professor of immunology and microbiology at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for germline-targeting immunogen design for HIV vaccines.

William Spreen

William Spreen (William R. Spreen) is a pharmaceutical scientist and Vice President at ViiV Healthcare who led clinical development of long-acting injectable cabotegravir for HIV.

William Stafford Noble

William Stafford Noble, formerly William Noble Grundy, is an American computational biologist and professor of genome sciences at the University of Washington, known for the MEME Suite of motif-discovery tools.

William Starling Sullivant

William Starling Sullivant (1803–1873) was a self-taught American bryologist of Columbus, Ohio, who wrote Icones Muscorum (1864), the standard account of eastern North American mosses.