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Patrick Doherty (neuroscientist)

Patrick Doherty is a molecular neuroscientist and Emeritus Professor at King's College London, at King's from 1990, known for work on neural cell adhesion molecules and the enzymes that synthesize 2-AG.

Patrick Emery

Patrick Emery is a chronobiologist and professor of neurobiology at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts, known for discovering cryptochrome's role in circadian rhythms.

Patrick F. Chinnery

Patrick F. Chinnery is a British neurologist and neurogeneticist at Cambridge known for work on mitochondrial DNA disorders, and Executive Chair of the Medical Research Council.

Patrick F. Sullivan

Patrick F. Sullivan, also known as Patrick Sullivan, is a psychiatric geneticist at UNC Chapel Hill and Karolinska Institutet who founded the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium.

Patrick Forterre

Patrick Forterre is a French biochemist and microbiologist, a professor at the Institut Pasteur since 2014, known for his work on Archaea and DNA topoisomerases.

Patrick G. Hogan

Patrick Hogan is an American molecular biologist at La Jolla Institute for Immunology who discovered the transcription factor NFAT and helped define store-operated calcium entry in T cells.

Patrick G. Holt

Patrick G. Holt, born 1945, is an Australian immunologist at The Kids Research Institute Australia in Perth, known for work on early-life origins of allergy and asthma.

Patrick G. O’Connor

Patrick G. O'Connor is an American physician-scientist at Yale School of Medicine who led the first randomized trial of buprenorphine for opioid dependence in primary care.

Patrick H. Maxwell

Patrick H. Maxwell, born 1962, is a British nephrologist known for work on how cells sense oxygen through the VHL and HIF pathway, and Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge since 2012.

Patrick H. O’Farrell

Patrick H. O'Farrell is an American developmental biologist at UCSF, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2017 for work on cell division in embryos.

Patrick Haggard

Patrick Haggard is a British cognitive neuroscientist, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, whose 2002 paper introduced the intentional binding effect linking voluntary actions to their outcomes.

Patrick Hwu

Patrick Hwu is a tumor immunologist and the president and CEO of Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida, since 2020, after 17 years in leadership at MD Anderson.

Patrick J. Heagerty

Patrick J. Heagerty is an American biostatistician at the University of Washington known for longitudinal-data methods and elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2020.

Patrick J. Keeling

Patrick J. Keeling is a Canadian evolutionary microbiologist and professor at the University of British Columbia who studies protists and identified Provora, a new supergroup of microbial predators.

Patrick J. Loehrer

Patrick J. Loehrer is an American medical oncologist at the Indiana University School of Medicine whose trials helped define modern cisplatin-based treatment of testicular cancer.

Patrick J. Stover

Patrick J. Stover is an American nutritional biochemist at Florida State University known for research on folate metabolism and folic acid's role in preventing birth defects.

Patrick Johnston (medical oncologist)

Patrick Gerard Johnston, known as Paddy, was a Northern Irish medical oncologist who researched chemotherapy drug resistance in gastrointestinal cancer and led Queen's University Belfast from 2014 until his death in 2017.

Patrick Kwan

Patrick Kwan is an Australian neurologist and epileptologist, Professor of Neurology at Monash University in Melbourne, who chaired the International League Against Epilepsy task force that produced the first consensus definition of drug-resistant epilepsy in 2010.

Patrick Laidlaw

Sir Patrick Playfair Laidlaw, known as Patrick Laidlaw, was a British virologist at the National Institute for Medical Research who led the 1933 first isolation of human influenza virus.

Patrick Lemaire

Patrick Lemaire is a French developmental biologist and CNRS Research Director at the CRBM in Montpellier who studies ascidian embryogenesis, known for cloning the Xenopus organizer gene Siamois in 1995.

Patrick M. Bossuyt

Patrick M. Bossuyt (Patrick M. M. Bossuyt) is a clinical epidemiologist and professor at Amsterdam UMC who led the STARD reporting guideline for diagnostic accuracy studies.

Patrick M. Carter

Patrick Michael Carter is an American emergency physician and injury-prevention researcher who is a University of Michigan professor and co-director of its Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention.

Patrick M. Forde

Patrick M. Forde is an Irish medical oncologist who led the 2018 first study of immunotherapy before lung cancer surgery and the CheckMate 816 trial, and chairs immuno-oncology at Trinity College Dublin.

Patrick M. Sexton

Patrick M. Sexton is a pharmacologist and Professor at Monash University's Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences who studies G protein-coupled receptors and co-founded Septerna and DACRA Tx.

Patrick Manson

Patrick Manson was a Scottish parasitologist who showed in 1878 that mosquitoes transmit filarial worms, earning the title Father of Tropical Medicine at the 1913 London congress.

Patrick Marcellin

Patrick Marcellin is a French hepatologist at Hôpital Beaujon, Paris, whose trials of antiviral therapy reshaped treatment of chronic hepatitis B and C, earning the EASL 2020 Recognition Award.

Patrick Matthias

Patrick Matthias is a Swiss molecular biologist known for work on B lymphocyte transcription and histone deacetylases, and for discovering the B cell coactivator OBF-1.

Patrick Mehlen

Patrick Mehlen (born 1968) is a French cancer biologist who directs the Cancer Research Center of Lyon and is known for the dependence receptor paradigm.

Patrick O. Brown

Patrick O. Brown, born 1954, is an American biochemist and Stanford professor emeritus who defined retroviral integration, co-invented the DNA microarray, and founded Impossible Foods.

Patrick P. L. Tam

Patrick P. L. Tam, also known as Patrick Tam, is a Hong Kong-born developmental biologist in Sydney known for fate mapping the early mouse embryo.