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Yukihide Tomari

Yukihide Tomari (泊 幸秀) is a Japanese RNA biochemist at the University of Tokyo known for work on small silencing RNAs and the piRNA pathway.

Yukihiko Kitamura

Yukihiko Kitamura (北村 幸彦) is a Japanese experimental pathologist and immunologist at Osaka University known for defining the origin and development of the mast cell lineage.

Yukiko Goda

Yukiko Goda is a Japanese-born neuroscientist who studies synapses and astrocytes, and has been Professor of the Synapse Biology Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology since 2022.

Yukiko Gotoh

Yukiko Gotoh (後藤由季子) is a Japanese molecular biologist, professor and vice dean at the University of Tokyo, known for work on MAP kinase signaling and neural stem cell fate.

Yukiko M. Yamashita

Yukiko M. Yamashita is a cell biologist, Whitehead Institute Member, and MIT professor who studies asymmetric stem cell division and satellite DNA in fruit flies; she won a MacArthur Fellowship in 2011.

Yukinori Okada

Yukinori Okada (岡田 随象) is a Japanese statistical geneticist, professor of genome informatics at the University of Tokyo since 2022, known for rheumatoid arthritis GWAS and drug-target discovery.

Yukio Fujiki

Yukio Fujiki is a Japanese cell biologist at the University of Hyogo who identified PEX genes that fail in peroxisome-deficiency disorders such as Zellweger syndrome.

Yuko Munakata

Yuko Munakata is a developmental cognitive neuroscientist, professor at UC Davis since 2019, known for a representational account of how executive functions develop from childhood through adulthood.

Yuman Fong

Yuman Fong is a surgical oncologist and gene therapy researcher who became Chairman of Surgery at City of Hope in 2014, known for the Fong score and oncolytic viruses.

Yumiko Saga

Yumiko Saga (相賀 裕美子) is a Japanese developmental geneticist at the National Institute of Genetics in Mishima, known for her work on somitogenesis and germ-cell development in mice.

Yuming Guo

Yuming Guo, also known as Yu Guo, is an Australian environmental epidemiologist and biostatistician at Monash University who studies how air pollution and climate affect health.

Yun Sok Lee

Yun Sok Lee is an immunometabolism researcher and Associate Professor In Residence in medicine at UC San Diego, studying inflammation, hypoxia, and metabolism in obesity and diabetes.

Yun‐Cai Liu

Yun-Cai Liu (刘云才) is a Chinese immunologist known for defining E3 ubiquitin ligases like c-Cbl and Itch as regulators of T cell signaling, and a professor at Tsinghua University.

Yun‐Xing Wang

Yun-Xing Wang is a structural biologist at the National Cancer Institute known for determining RNA structures and the solution structure of the anti-HIV protein MAP30.

Yunde Zhao

Yunde Zhao is a plant biologist at the University of California San Diego known for identifying the YUCCA enzymes that make auxin and for the RUBY gene-editing reporter.

Yung‐Jue Bang

Yung-Jue Bang is a South Korean medical oncologist and professor emeritus at Seoul National University, best known for leading the ToGA trial that made trastuzumab standard of care in HER2-positive gastric cancer.

Yuri A. Ushkaryov

Yuri A. Ushkaryov is a neuroscientist and biochemist, Professor at the Medway School of Pharmacy, University of Kent, who co-discovered the neurexins, presynaptic cell-recognition proteins, in the early 1990s.

Yuriy Kirichok

Yuriy Kirichok is a physiologist known for developing patch-clamp recording of the mitochondrial inner membrane and sperm plasma membrane, and is a professor at Washington University School of Medicine.

Yury Natochin

Yury Viktorovich Natochin (Юрий Викторович Наточин, born 1932 in Kharkiv) is a Soviet and Russian physiologist and academician known for kidney water-salt balance research and studies of cosmonauts.

Yusaku Nakabeppu

Yusaku Nakabeppu (中別府 雄作) is a Japanese molecular biologist known for work on Fos/Jun transcription factors and the cellular defense system against the oxidized DNA base 8-oxoguanine.

Yusuf Hannun

Yusuf Hannun, born in Saudi Arabia of Palestinian parents, is a biochemist who directs the Stony Brook Cancer Center and established ceramide as a signaling molecule.

Yūsuke Nakamura

Yūsuke Nakamura (中村祐輔, born 1952) is a Japanese medical geneticist who pioneered disease-gene discovery in Japan, isolated the APC tumor suppressor gene, and founded BioBank Japan.

Yuval Dor

Yuval Dor (יובל דור) is an Israeli professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Faculty of Medicine who studies pancreatic beta cells, diabetes, and DNA methylation.

Yvain Nicolet

Yvain Nicolet is a French structural biologist who leads the Metalloproteins Unit at the Institut de Biologie Structurale in Grenoble, studying hydrogenases and radical SAM enzymes.

Yves Agid

Yves Agid, born in 1940, is a French neurologist and neurobiologist at Sorbonne Université who founded the Institut du Cerveau in Paris and advanced Parkinson's disease research.

Yves Barral

Yves Barral (born 1966) is a French cell biologist, Full Professor at ETH Zurich, known for identifying diffusion barriers that keep aging material in yeast mother cells.

Yves Bourne

Yves Bourne is a French structural biologist and CNRS research director in Marseille who led the AFMB laboratory from 2008 to 2023 and studies synaptic proteins.

Yves Dauvilliers

Yves Dauvilliers (born 1970) is a French neurologist and sleep-medicine researcher at Montpellier who directs the national reference center for narcolepsies and led NEJM orexin-agonist trials.

Yves De Koninck

Yves De Koninck is a Canadian neuroscientist, professor at Université Laval and director of the CERVO Brain Research Centre, known for showing how impaired chloride regulation drives neuropathic pain.

Yves Delage

Yves Delage, full name Marie Yves Delage (1854–1920), was a French zoologist who held the Sorbonne chair in zoology, studied fertilization in sea urchins, and won the Darwin Medal in 1916.