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Edwardsia
Edwardsia (de Quatrefages, 1842) is a genus of small burrowing sea anemones in the family Edwardsiidae, order Actiniaria, with eight perfect mesenteries, nemathybomes, and roughly forty accepted species worldwide.
Edwardsiella
Edwardsiella (Ewing and McWhorter, 1965) is a genus of gram-negative Enterobacteriaceae rods, now five species including E. tarda, E. piscicida, and E. ictaluri; fish pathogens of aquaculture and rare opportunistic human pathogens causing gastroenteritis and septicemia.
Edwardsiella tarda
Edwardsiella tarda (synonym Edwardsiella anguillimortifera) is a Gram-negative Hafniaceae bacterium of aquatic animals, a fish pathogen and rare human cause of gastroenteritis and bacteremia; type strain ATCC 15947.
Edwin B. Astwood
Edwin B. Astwood (1909–1976) was a Bermudian-born endocrinologist who showed that drug therapy could control Graves' disease without surgery, developing propylthiouracil and methimazole at Tufts.
Edwin Claybrook
Edwin Claybrook, also known as Edwin B. Claybrook, was an American surgeon (1871–1931) remembered for Claybrook sign, heard in rupture of an abdominal organ after blunt trauma.
Edwin Cuppen
Edwin Cuppen is a Dutch molecular geneticist in cancer genomics, professor of Human Genetics at UMC Utrecht and scientific director of the Hartwig Medical Foundation since 2017.
Edwin D. Kilbourne
Edwin D. Kilbourne (1920–2011) was an American physician and influenza virologist who developed the first genetically engineered influenza vaccines and led Mount Sinai's microbiology department.
Edwin Dun
Edwin Dun (エドウィン・ダン, 1848–1931), American rancher from Ohio, father of Hokkaido dairy farming; Kaitakushi adviser 1873–1882, built Makomanai ranch and irrigation channel, later U.S. Minister to Japan 1893–1897.
Edwin Furshpan
Edwin Furshpan, known as Ed Furshpan, was an American neurobiologist and Harvard Medical School professor who discovered electrical synaptic transmission and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1982.
Edwin G. Abel
Edwin G. Abel, known as Ted Abel, is an American neuroscientist studying the molecular mechanisms of memory storage; he directs the Iowa Neuroscience Institute and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019.
Edwin G. Krebs
Edwin G. Krebs (1918–2009) was an American biochemist who shared the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that cells regulate proteins by phosphorylation.
Edwin Gale
Edwin A.M. Gale is a British diabetologist, Professor of Diabetic Medicine at the University of Bristol from 1997, known for the ENDIT type 1 diabetes prevention trial.
Edwin Grant Conklin
Edwin Grant Conklin was an American embryologist known for tracing cell lineages in marine eggs and arguing that the egg's cytoplasm, not only its nucleus, directs early development.
Edwin John Butler
Sir Edwin John Butler (1874–1943), Irish mycologist and plant pathologist; first Imperial Mycologist at Pusa, India, and first Director of the Imperial Bureau of Mycology, Kew; called Father of Indian Plant Pathology.
Edwin Klebs
Edwin Klebs (1834–1913) was a Prussian pathologist and bacteriologist who formulated the causal criteria for microbial disease years before Robert Koch and described the diphtheria bacillus in 1883.
Edwin L. Alderman
Edwin L. Alderman was an American cardiologist and Stanford professor of cardiovascular medicine who led randomized trials of coronary bypass surgery and angioplasty, including the Coronary Artery Surgery Study.
Edwin L. Bierman
Edwin L. Bierman (1930–1995) was an American endocrinologist and lipid researcher at the University of Washington who pioneered using cultured human cells to study atherosclerosis and co-discovered combined hyperlipidemia.
Edwin L. Ferguson
Edwin L. Ferguson is an American molecular geneticist and University of Chicago professor known for showing that Dpp acts as a morphogen patterning the fruit fly embryo.
Edwin M. Stone
Edwin M. Stone is an American physician-scientist at the University of Iowa who identified the first human glaucoma gene and genes behind macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa.
Edwin Mercado
Edwin Mercado (Edwin M. Mercado), Filipino physician and orthopedic surgeon, appointed Philippine Department of Health Secretary in August 2026; previously acting PhilHealth president and CEO from February 2025 and hospital executive.
Edwin Milgröm
Edwin Milgröm is a French molecular endocrinologist whose laboratory at Inserm and Bicêtre Hospital defined how steroid hormone receptors act in the cell and how RU 486 blocks progesterone.
Edwin O. Jordan
Edwin O. Jordan (1866–1936) was an American bacteriologist who built the University of Chicago's bacteriology program, led the Society of American Bacteriologists, and analyzed the 1918 influenza pandemic.
Edwin P. Przybylowicz
Edwin P. Przybylowicz is an American analytical chemist who retired in 1991 as senior vice president and director of research at Eastman Kodak, directing about 10,000 people.
Edwin R. Chapman
Edwin R. Chapman is a neuroscientist and HHMI investigator at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose lab identified synaptotagmin-1 as the calcium sensor triggering rapid synaptic vesicle release.
Edwin S. Levitan
Edwin S. Levitan is a neuroscientist and professor of pharmacology at the University of Pittsburgh who studies how neuropeptides are delivered to and released from synapses.
Edwin Southern
Edwin Southern, born in 1938, is a British molecular biologist and Fellow of the Royal Society best known for inventing the Southern blot and pioneering DNA microarrays.
Edwin Stephen Goodrich
Edwin Stephen Goodrich (1868–1946) was a British zoologist who held the Linacre chair of zoology at Oxford and proposed the segmental theory of the vertebrate head.
Edwin W. Salzman
Edwin W. Salzman was an American surgeon and Harvard professor who led clinical trials on preventing venous thromboembolism and served 13 years as deputy editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.
EEC syndrome
EEC syndrome (ectrodactyly-ectodermal dysplasia-cleft lip/palate syndrome, ORPHA:1896), a rare autosomal dominant TP63 developmental disorder with split hands/feet, ectodermal defects, and cleft lip/palate.
EEF2
EEF2, also known as elongation factor 2, is a GTP-binding protein essential for protein synthesis in eukaryotes, catalyzing ribosomal translocation and serving as the target of diphthamide-binding toxins.