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Olivier Civelli

Olivier Civelli is a Swiss-trained neuropharmacologist who holds the Nelson Chair at UC Irvine, cloned the D2 and D4 dopamine receptors, and discovered orphanin FQ in 1995.

Olivier Delaneau

Olivier Delaneau is a statistical geneticist and main developer of the SHAPEIT haplotype estimation software, whose tools are used in the 1000 Genomes Project, UK Biobank, and GTEx.

Olivier Delattre

Olivier Delattre is a French pediatrician and cancer geneticist, research director at Inserm, best known for identifying in 1992 the genes rearranged in Ewing's sarcoma, a childhood bone cancer.

Olivier Devergne

Olivier Devergne is a Drosophila developmental geneticist and Associate Professor at Northern Illinois University, known for work on JAK/STAT signaling, epithelial polarity, and basement membrane deposition.

Olivier Devuyst

Olivier Devuyst is a Belgian physician-scientist in molecular nephrology, a Full Professor of Medicine at the University of Zurich known for work on aquaporins and inherited kidney diseases.

Olivier Féron

Olivier Féron is a Belgian cancer researcher and professor at UCLouvain in Brussels who studies how the acidic tumor microenvironment reshapes cancer cell metabolism and ferroptosis.

Olivier Gevaert

Olivier Gevaert is a biomedical data scientist and Associate Professor at Stanford School of Medicine, known for machine learning methods that fuse imaging, pathology, and omics data for cancer prognosis.

Olivier Haccard

Olivier Haccard is a French cell-cycle biologist, a CNRS research director at the Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience known for defining the Mos–MAP kinase pathway in Xenopus egg maturation.

Olivier Hamant

Olivier Hamant is a French biologist and biophysicist, research director at INRAE and deputy director of the RDP laboratory in Lyon, studying how mechanical forces guide plant development.

Olivier Hermine

Olivier Hermine (born 1962) is a French hematologist, professor at Université Paris Cité and head of clinical hematology at the Hôpital Necker in Paris, known for mastocytosis research.

Olivier Lantz

Olivier Lantz is a physician-immunologist at Institut Curie in Paris who discovered mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells, named them in a 2003 Nature paper, and leads research on their role in cancer.

Olivier Pourquie

Olivier Pourquie is a French developmental biologist known for discovering the vertebrate segmentation clock, the molecular oscillator timing somite formation in embryos. He is a professor at Harvard Medical School.

Olivier Pourquié

Olivier Pourquié is a French-American developmental biologist, professor at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, known for discovering the segmentation clock that governs somite formation.

Olivier Rascol

Olivier Rascol is a French neurologist and clinical pharmacologist, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at Toulouse University Hospital since 1993, known for Parkinson's disease trials including the 2000 ropinirole study and the 2024 LIXIPARK trial.

Olivier Schwartz

Olivier Schwartz is a French virologist and professor at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, where he has headed the Virus and Immunity unit since 2007.

Olivier Sitbon

Olivier Sitbon (born 1961) is a French professor of respiratory medicine at Hôpital Bicêtre known for clinical trials in pulmonary arterial hypertension, including the 2015 GRIPHON trial.

Olivier Voinnet

Olivier Voinnet is a French plant molecular biologist who studies RNA silencing in plants; he has been professor of RNA biology at ETH Zurich since 2010.

Olivocochlear system

Olivocochlear system: brainstem-to-cochlea efferent pathway from the superior olivary complex, divided into medial (MOC, outer hair cells, cholinergic gain reduction) and lateral (LOC) divisions, studied via otoacoustic emissions for protection and speech-in-noise roles.

Olke C. Uhlenbeck

Olke C. Uhlenbeck (Olke Cornelis Uhlenbeck) is an RNA biochemist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado Boulder, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1993.

Olle Bjorkman

Olle Björkman (Olof Erik Björkman, 1933–2021) was a Swedish-born plant physiologist who spent his career at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology in Stanford, California, studying how photosynthesis adapts to light, temperature, and aridity.

Olle Björkman

Olle Björkman (Olof Erik Björkman, 1933–2021) was a Swedish-born plant physiologist at the Carnegie Institution in Stanford, known for work on photosynthetic adaptation to light, temperature, and aridity.

Olle Kämpe

Olle Kämpe is a Swedish professor of clinical endocrinology at Karolinska Institutet whose research on Addison's disease and APS-1 produced autoantibody tests in clinical use.

Olle Lindvall

Olle Lindvall is a Swedish neurologist and neuroscientist at Lund University who led its Parkinson's cell transplantation program and showed that stroke triggers new neuron formation.

Olle Ringdén

Olle Ringdén is a Swedish professor of transplantation immunology at Karolinska Institutet who created and led its Centre for Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation and reported 27 first-in-world procedures.

Olli T. Raitakari

Olli T. Raitakari (born 1963) is a Finnish professor of cardiovascular medicine at the University of Turku who leads the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study, begun in 1980.

Ollier disease

Ollier disease (enchondromatosis, dyschondroplasia) is a rare bone dysplasia with multiple asymmetric enchondromas caused by somatic IDH1/IDH2 mutations, with elevated chondrosarcoma risk.

Olm

The olm (Proteus anguinus), also called the human fish, is a blind, pale aquatic salamander of the Dinaric Karst caves in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Italy.

Olmesartan

Olmesartan (Benicar) is an angiotensin II receptor blocker prodrug (olmesartan medoxomil) approved in the US in 2002 for hypertension; known for 24-hour BP lowering, sprue-like enteropathy risk, and ROADMAP and SUPPORT trial findings.

Olmutinib

Olmutinib (BI 1482694, HM61713, brand Olita) is an oral, irreversible, mutant-selective third-generation EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor for T790M-positive NSCLC, approved in South Korea in 2016 but discontinued after fatal skin toxicity and inferior results versus osimertinib.

Olodaterol

Olodaterol (Striverdi Respimat) is a once-daily long-acting beta2-agonist inhalation bronchodilator by Boehringer Ingelheim for COPD maintenance, 5 µg via Respimat; also combined with tiotropium as Stiolto/Spiolto Respimat; not indicated for asthma.