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Peter J. Polverini

Peter J. Polverini is an American oral and maxillofacial pathologist and cancer researcher who served as dean of the University of Michigan School of Dentistry from 2003 to 2013.

Peter J. Pronovost

Peter J. Pronovost is an American critical care physician and patient-safety researcher known for a central-line checklist that sharply reduced Michigan ICU infections, earning a MacArthur Fellowship in 2008.

Peter J. Quesenberry

Peter J. Quesenberry (1938–2025) was an American hematologist-oncologist and stem cell researcher at Brown University, known for the stem cell continuum and extracellular vesicle research.

Peter J. Ratcliffe

Peter J. Ratcliffe, also known as Peter Ratcliffe, is a British physician-scientist and nephrologist at Oxford who discovered how cells sense oxygen, winning the 2019 Nobel Prize.

Peter J. Roach

Peter J. Roach (1948–2022) was an English-born biochemist at the Indiana University School of Medicine who established the role of glycogen phosphorylation in Lafora disease.

Peter J. Sadler

Peter John Sadler is a chemist and Chair of Chemistry at the University of Warwick. He pioneered the chemistry of metals in medicine and developed targeted anticancer agents.

Peter J. Scheuer

Peter J. Scheuer (1928–2006) was a British hepatopathologist at the Royal Free Hospital and University College London, known for the textbook Liver Biopsy Interpretation and his classification of chronic hepatitis.

Peter J. Schwartz

Peter J. Schwartz is an Italian cardiologist known for his work on long QT syndrome and the autonomic nervous system, directing cardiac genetics research in Milan.

Peter J. Selby

Peter J. Selby is a British oncologist and Professor of Cancer Medicine at the University of Leeds, known for the acyclovir studies and the MRC Myeloma VII trial.

Peter J. Snyder

Peter J. Snyder is an American endocrinologist and professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, known for leading the Testosterone Trials and the 2024 finding that testosterone did not reduce fractures.

Peter John Campbell

Peter John Campbell is a cancer genomicist and clinician-scientist known for chromothripsis, kataegis, and mutational signatures, who led the Cancer, Ageing and Somatic Mutation program at the Wellcome Sanger Institute.

Peter John Morris

Sir Peter John Morris (1934–2022) was an Australian-born transplant surgeon who led surgery at Oxford and served as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Peter Johnson (medical oncologist)

Peter Johnson, also known as Peter M. Johnson, is a British medical oncologist at the University of Southampton known for the RAPID trial in Hodgkin lymphoma.

Peter Jonas (neuroscientist)

Peter Jonas (born 1961) is a German neuroscientist studying synaptic transmission and hippocampal microcircuits, a professor at ISTA in Austria since 2010 and a Wittgenstein Award winner.

Peter Joseph Embi

Peter Joseph Embi is an American physician-scientist in biomedical informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center who created the nation's first Chief Research Information Officer role.

Peter Jüni

Peter Jüni is a Swiss clinical epidemiologist who led the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table and has been a professor at the University of Oxford since 2022.

Peter K. Gregersen

Peter K. Gregersen (born 1950) is an American rheumatologist and geneticist who heads the Robert S. Boas Center for Genomics and Human Genetics in Manhasset, New York.

Peter K. Hepler

Peter K. Hepler is an American plant cell biologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known for work on cytokinesis and calcium signaling.

Peter K. Lindenauer

Peter K. Lindenauer is an American physician and health-services researcher who studies hospital care quality and outcomes, now focused on COPD and pulmonary rehabilitation at UMass Chan – Baystate.

Peter K. Olitsky

Peter K. Olitsky (Peter Kosciusko Olitsky, 1886–1964) was an American virologist at the Rockefeller Institute who studied epidemic diseases and, with Albert Sabin, grew polio virus in human embryonic brain tissue in 1936.

Peter K. Sorger

Peter K. Sorger is a systems biologist at Harvard Medical School who heads its Program in Therapeutic Science and directs the Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology.

Peter K. Vogt

Peter K. Vogt, born 1932 in Czechoslovakia, is an American cancer virologist and professor emeritus at Scripps Research who helped identify src, the first retroviral oncogene.

Peter K. Wellauer

Peter K. Wellauer is a molecular biologist known for mapping the structural organization of ribosomal DNA in Drosophila and Xenopus by electron microscopy at the Carnegie Institution in Baltimore.

Peter Kareiva

Peter Kareiva is an American ecologist and conservation scientist known for habitat fragmentation research and ecosystem-services conservation, chief scientist of The Nature Conservancy from 2003 to 2015.

Peter Karran

Peter Karran is a British-based molecular biologist who studied DNA mismatch repair and thiopurine mutagenesis at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund's Clare Hall Laboratories from 1985.

Peter Kerley

Peter Kerley, full name Sir Peter James Kerley, was an Irish radiologist who described the chest X-ray lines named after him, Kerley A, B, and C lines.

Peter Koopman

Peter Koopman is an Australian developmental geneticist at the University of Queensland, best known for his role in the discovery of SRY, the Y-chromosome gene that determines male sex in mammals.

Peter L. Greenberg

Peter L. Greenberg is a hematologist and Professor of Medicine, Emeritus, at Stanford University, known for his work on the classification, prognosis, and treatment of myelodysplastic syndromes.

Peter L. Pedersen

Peter L. Pedersen is an American biochemist and professor of biological chemistry at Johns Hopkins, known for research on mitochondrial hexokinase and the Warburg effect in cancer.

Peter L. Stern

Peter L. Stern, also known as Peter Stern, is a cancer immunologist and Group Leader at the University of Manchester, known for discovering the 5T4 oncofoetal antigen.